Within-Subject Blood Pressure Level—Not Variability—Predicts Fatal and Nonfatal Outcomes in a General Population

To assess the prognostic significance of blood pressure (BP) variability, we followed health outcomes in a family-based random population sample representative of the general population (n=2944; mean age: 44.9 years; 50.7% women). At baseline, BP was measured 5 times consecutively at each of 2 home...

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Main Authors: Schutte, Rudolph, Thijs, Lutgarde, Liu, Yan-Ping, Asayama, Kei, Jin, Yu, Odili, Augustine, Gu, Yu-Mei, Kuznetsova, Tatiana, Jacobs, Lotte, Staessen, Jan A.
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3607229/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23071126
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.202143
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