Why the study?
Is heart rate inversely associated with blood pressure variability during ambulatory blood pressure monitoring?
Population
4,693 subjects undergoing ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, including a subset of 1,019 patients with…
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Heart rate confounds β-blocker–BPV associations; leaves open independent drug effects and supports HR adjustment in future observational analyses.
Is heart rate inversely associated with blood pressure variability during ambulatory blood pressure monitoring?
Ambulatory blood pressure variability is inversely related to heart rate, suggesting that the previously observed increased BPV with beta-blockers is an artifact of heart rate reduction rather than a true drug effect.
Cahan et al. (2011) studied this question.
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