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“Blood pressure variability” refers to the spontaneous instability of arterial blood pressure values over short- and long-term periods of time. The easiest way to evaluate blood pressure changes is to assess the size of the standard deviation relative to a set of data. Consequently, the standard deviations of systolic, diastolic, mean arterial blood pressure, and pulse pressure values can be analyzed separately.
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Salvi, P. (2017). Arterial Stiffness and Blood Pressure Variability. In: Pulse Waves. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40501-8_3
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