Visit-to-visit blood pressure variability in patients with type 2 diabetes with and without previous history of cardiovascular disease
Objective:
Visit-to-visit variability in SBP is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) but little is known on whether in T2DM this differs according to presence or absence of previous CVD.
Methods:
We retrospectively assessed the coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean) of mean SBP (SBP-CV) in 970 patients (44% with established CVD) attending at least four times our secondary care diabetes clinic in 2015–2016 to estimate their risk of CVD-related events using the 10-year UKPDS Risk Engine.
Results:
Patients with established CVD had a higher SBP-CV (10.3 ± 4.8%) than patients without CVD (8.9 ± 4.3%; P
Source: Journal of Hypertension - Category: Cardiology Tags: ORIGINAL PAPERS: BP variability Source Type: research
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