Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
Volume 34, Issue 7, Pages 689-697Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpaa210
Keywords
blood pressure; blood pressure variability; cardiovascular diseases; diabetes; hypertension; mortality
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- NIH/NHLBI grant [K23 HL153774]
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In individuals with type 2 diabetes, greater variability in systolic blood pressure was associated with higher cardiovascular mortality and events, while higher variability in diastolic blood pressure was linked to increased overall and cardiovascular mortality.
BACKGROUND We evaluated the associations of visit-to-visit blood pressure (BP) variability with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and deaths in adults with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We analyzed 4,152 participants in Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) free of CVD events and deaths during the first 36 months of follow-up. Variability of systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) across 4 annual visits was assessed using the intraindividual SD, variation independent of the mean, and coefficient of variation. Cox regression was used to generate the adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for CVD (myocardial infarction [MI], stroke, or CVD-related deaths) and mortality. RESULTS Over a median of 6.6 years, there were 220 MIs, 105 stroke cases, 62 CVD-related deaths, and 236 deaths. After adjustment for confounders including average BP, the aHRs for the highest (vs. lowest) tertile of SD of SBP were 1.98 (95% CI 1.01-3.92), 1.25 (95% CI 0.90-1.72), 1.26 (95% CI 0.96-1.64), 1.05 (95% CI 0.75-1.46), and 1.64 (95% CI 0.99-2.72) for CVD mortality, all-cause mortality, CVD, MI, and stroke, respectively. The equivalent aHRs for SD of DBP were 1.84 (95% CI 0.98-3.48), 1.43 (95% CI 1.03-1.98), 1.19 (95% CI 0.91-1.56), 1.14 (95% CI 0.82-1.58), and 0.97 (95% CI 0.58-1.60), respectively. CONCLUSIONS In a large sample of individuals with type 2 diabetes, a greater variability in SBP was associated with higher cardiovascular mortality and CVD events; a higher variability in DBP was linked to increased overall and cardiovascular mortality.
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