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Blood Pressure Fluctuation During Hospitalization and Clinical Outcomes Within 3 Months After Ischemic Stroke
Ruirui Wang1, Yang Liu2,3, Pinni Yang1
1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, China (R.W., P.Y., Z.Z., M.S., C.Z., A.W., Tan Xu, H.P., Y.Z.).
Background:
Increased blood pressure (BP) variability is positively associated with the risks of cerebral small-vessel disease, cardiovascular events and death. However, no large clinical trials have been published to demonstrate the effect of BP fluctuations during hospitalization on clinical outcomes after ischemic stroke.
Methods:
A total of 3972 patients with acute ischemic stroke from 26 participating hospitals were included in this study, and BP fluctuations were calculated using BP data collected during the hospitalization. The primary outcome was composite outcome of death or major disability (modified Rankin Scale score ≥3) within 3 months and secondary outcomes included death, vascular events, and composite outcomes (death or vascular events).
Results:
Compared with the lowest quartile of systolic BP fluctuations, the adjusted odds ratio associated with the highest quartile was 1.33 ([95% CI, 1.05-1.68]; Ptrend=0.011) for primary outcome; the adjusted hazard ratios were 2.89 ([95% CI, 1.58-5.32]; Ptrend<0.001) for death, 1.48 ([95% CI, 0.83-2.65]; Ptrend=0.071) for vascular events, and 2.06 ([95% CI, 1.32-3.23]; Ptrend<0.001) for composite outcome. Similar results were found for diastolic BP. Multivariable adjusted restricted cubic spline analysis showed a linear relationship between systolic BP fluctuations and the primary outcome (P for linearity=0.0009).
Conclusions:
Larger BP fluctuations during hospitalization were associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes at 3 months after ischemic stroke onset, independent of mean BP. These findings suggested that BP fluctuation should be a risk factor of adverse outcomes after ischemic stroke, which provided a new insight for BP management strategy.
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