The impact of multiple single day blood pressure readings on cardiovascular risk estimation: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study

Conclusions
Estimated risks of coronary heart disease, heart failure, and stroke for an individual can change significantly within a day due to changes in systolic blood pressure. Given recommendations to use estimated risk for therapeutic decisions, our study has implications for the use of a single systolic blood pressure in cardiovascular risk estimation.

Source: European Journal of Preventive Cardiology - August 29, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ogunwale, A. N., Morrison, A. C., Sun, W., Dodge, R. C., Virani, S. S., Taylor, A., Gottesman, R. F., Yang, E., Wei, P., McEvoy, J. W., Heiss, G., Boerwinkle, E., Ballantyne, C. M., Nambi, V. Tags: Original scientific papers Source Type: research