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Short-term blood pressure variability assessed by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring as a predictor of subclinical target organ damage

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  • Yanling Hong

  • Sixin Xie

  • Huiqiong Jiang

  • July 15, 2026

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    The study evaluated short-term blood pressure variability (BPV) from 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) for predicting subclinical target organ damage (TOD).

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    Among 176 essential hypertension patients, 94 were assigned to the TOD group, showing significantly higher BPV parameters compared to the non-TOD group.

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    Nighttime systolic blood pressure standard deviation (SD), 24-h average real variability (ARV), and nighttime SBP ARV were identified as independent predictors of subclinical TOD.

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    Receiver operating characteristic analysis indicated nighttime SBP SD had an area under the curve of 0.837, with a sensitivity of 89.4% and specificity of 78.0%.

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    Subgroup analyses confirmed that nighttime SBP SD independently predicted cardiac, vascular, and renal target organ damage.

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Short-term blood pressure variability assessed by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring as a predictor of subclinical target organ damage

  • by Yanling Hong, Sixin Xie, Huiqiong Jiang

  • July 15, 2026

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