Relationship of short-term blood pressure variability with carotid intima-media thickness in hypertensive patients

Conclusions:
The results show that SBPV during daytime and 24 h had significant correlation with IMT, for the hypertensive subjects from the southern area of China. Moreover, we also found the daytime SBPV to be the best predictor for the progression of IMT in multivariate regression analysis. In addition, the present study suggests that the correlation between BPV and left common carotid artery—intima-media thickness/number of plaques is stronger than right common carotid artery-intima-media thickness/number of plaques.

Source: BioMedical Engineering OnLine - July 24, 2015 Category: Biomedical Engineering Authors: Yujie ChenHuahua XiongDan WuSandeep PirbhulalXiaohong TianRuiqin ZhangMinhua LuWanqing WuWenhua Huang Source Type: research