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Short-Term and Long-Term Blood Pressure Variability

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Blood pressure (BP) is highly variable within a 24-h period, as well as between days, months, years, and seasons. Available evidence shows that within 24-h (or short-term) BP, variabilities have prognostic significance, i.e., their size is related to cardiovascular morbid and fatal events independently of other cardiovascular risk factors and mean BP levels. This has more recently also been shown for visit-to-visit BP variations in patients receiving antihypertensive treatment. Controlling BP variability with treatment may thus represent an important future goal.

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Mancia, G. (2012). Short-Term and Long-Term Blood Pressure Variability. In: Berbari, A., Mancia, G. (eds) Special Issues in Hypertension. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2601-8_8

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