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Is the blood pressure variability the great forgotten parameter?

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  1. Clinical Epidemiology and Vascular Risk Unit, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío SAS/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

    Pablo Stiefel, Manuela Falcón-Ortega, David León–Jiménez & Luis Matias Beltrán-Romero

  2. Internal Medicine, Clinical Unit for Comprehensive Medical Care (UCAMI), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain

    Pablo Stiefel, David León–Jiménez & Luis Matias Beltrán-Romero

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Stiefel, P., Falcón-Ortega, M., León–Jiménez, D. et al. Is the blood pressure variability the great forgotten parameter?. Hypertens Res 44, 877–878 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41440-020-00613-x

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