{"id":1052954,"date":"2010-06-29T22:11:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/episodic-hypertension-is-a-strong-predictor-of-stroke-risk\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:06","slug":"episodic-hypertension-is-a-strong-predictor-of-stroke-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/episodic-hypertension-is-a-strong-predictor-of-stroke-risk.php","title":{"rendered":"Episodic hypertension is a strong predictor of stroke risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0fd88_180px-Blutdruck.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0fd88_180px-Blutdruck.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a>The mechanisms by which hypertension causes vascular events are unclear. Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment focus only on underlying mean blood pressure.<\/p><p>In each TIA cohort in this study, visit-to-visit variability in systolic blood pressure (SBP) was a strong predictor of subsequent stroke (eg, top-decile hazard ratio [HR] for SBP 6&middot;22), independent of mean SBP.<\/p><p>Maximum SBP reached was also a strong predictor of stroke (HR 15).<\/p><p>Visit-to-visit variability in SBP on treatment was also a strong predictor of stroke and coronary events (top-decile HR for stroke: 3&middot;25) independent of mean SBP.<\/p><p>Visit-to-visit variability in SBP and maximum SBP are strong predictors of stroke, independent of mean SBP. Increased residual variability in SBP in patients with treated hypertension is associated with a high risk of vascular events.<\/p><p>References:<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS014067361060308X\/abstract?rss=yes\">Prognostic significance of visit-to-visit variability, maximum systolic blood pressure, and episodic hypertension<\/a>. The Lancet, Volume 375, Issue 9718, Pages 895 - 905, 13 March 2010.<\/div><div>Image source: BP device used for measuring arterial pressure. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Blutdruck.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a>, GNU Free Documentation License.<\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment focus only on underlying mean blood pressure.In each TIA cohort in this study, visit-to-visit variability in systolic blood pressure (SBP) was a strong predictor of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/episodic-hypertension-is-a-strong-predictor-of-stroke-risk.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}