Blood pressure variability and cardiovascular outcomes
By Mark Caulfield, London, and Peter Nilsson, Malmo
The traditional way to evaluate blood pressure is by office recordings, either supine or sitting, but in more recent years home blood pressure measurements and 24-h ambulatory blood pressure recordings (24-h ABPM) have become more widely used. One newer aspect is to measure arterial stiffness by pulse wave velocity (PWV), as an indication of the target organ damage caused by elevated blood pressure.