Clinical hypertension: Blood pressure variability forward

As the leading risk factor in cardiovascular disease, the management and treatment of hypertension has been at the forefront in primary care preventive medicine. Oftentimes, a mean blood pressure measurement obtained in a clinic setting has been used as the most important therapeutic metric in making management decisions; this may lead to an overly simplistic and erroneous conclusions due to variations during the day and night. Thus, due to oscillations during the day, measurement of a single clinic-based blood pressure is an inconsistent metric for a definable goal and therefore has often been problematic in hypertension monitoring.
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