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Blood pressure levels correlate with intra-individual variability using an automated device in early pregnancy
L C Y Poon1, N Kametas, C M Valencia
1Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK.
Abstract:
This study reports on the interdependence of intra-individual blood pressure (BP) variability and the BP level in early pregnancy. The higher the BP, the more exaggerated the drop from the first to the second reading and the higher the intra-individual standard deviation.
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