Cardiovascular Research

Blood pressure variability and the risk of all-cause mortality, incident myocardial infarction, and incident stroke in the cardi

Authors: Astrid M Suchy-Dicey|||Erin R Wallace|||S V Elkind Mitchell|||Maria Aguilar|||Rebecca F Gottesman|||Kenneth Rice|||Richard Kronmal|||Bruce M Psaty|||W T Longstreth

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Abstract

Recent reports have linked variability in visit-to-visit systolic blood pressure (SBP) to risk of mortality and stroke, independent of the effect of mean SBP level. This study aimed to evaluate whether variability in SBP is associated with all-cause mortality, incident myocardial infarction (MI), and incident stroke, independent of mean SBP or trends in SBP levels over time.

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