Alteration of vascular function is an important factor in the correlation between visit-to-visit blood pressure variability and cardiovascular disease

Abstract

Visit-to-visit SBP variability correlates significantly with systemic atherosclerotic change, incidence of CVD, and mortality rate. Altered arterial functions, such as macrovascular atherosclerosis and vascular resistance, are responsible for the correlations between visit-to-visit SBP variability and incidence of CVD.