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Does visit-to-visit variability in systolic blood pressure predict vascular events and premature death in patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus?
Does visit-to-visit variability in systolic blood pressure predict vascular events and premature death in patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus?
Visit-to-visit variability in SBP is an independent predictor of vascular complications and death in Type 2 diabetes, improving risk prediction beyond traditional risk factors.
May refine 8-year vascular risk prediction in T2DM; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
<0.01). Addition of standard deviation of SBP significantly improved 8-year risk classification (continuous net reclassification improvement, 5.3%). Results were similar for other measures of visit-to-visit variability, except maximum SBP. Visit-to-visit variability in SBP is an independent predictor of vascular complications and death, which improves risk prediction beyond that provided by traditional risk factors, including mean SBP.
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