Reproducibility of measures of visit-to-visit variability in blood pressure after transient ischaemic attack or minor stroke.

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BACKGROUND: In certain patients in routine practice, blood pressure (BP) measurements differ substantially from week to week or month to month. Although often assumed to be random, such variability could provide information on underlying pathology or prognosis. In order to be informative, however, visit-to-visit BP variability would have to be neither random (i.e. it should be reproducible over time within individuals) nor artefactual (i.e. it should not be an artefact of the method/timing o...

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Authors: Howard, S; Rothwell, P

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland)
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 331-340
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1159/000229551
• EISSN: 1421-9786
• ISSN: 1015-9770
• Language: English
• Keywords: Endarterectomy, Carotid; Seasons; Time Factors; Humans; Aspirin; Blood Pressure; Treatment Outcome; Predictive Value of Tests; Middle Aged; Aged; Office Visits; Female; Reproducibility of Results; Male; Blood Pressure Determination; Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors; Follow-Up Studies; Stroke; Ischemic Attack, Transient