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Are functional alterations of central and peripheral arteries associated with greater long-term visit-to-visit variability of systolic blood pressure?
Are functional alterations of central and peripheral arteries associated with greater long-term visit-to-visit variability of systolic blood pressure?
Decreased aortic distensibility and arterial elasticity are associated with increased long-term visit-to-visit systolic blood pressure variability.
Hypothesis-generating in observational cohort; leaves open whether arterial function is a modifiable target for BP variability.
In this multiethnic cohort, functional alterations of central and peripheral arteries were associated with greater long-term VVV of SBP.
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Shimbo et al. (2013) studied this question.
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