Abstract

Blood pressure variability (BPV) is emerging as an important risk factor across numerous disease states, including cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disease in older adults. However, there is no current consensus regarding specific use cases for the numerous available BPV metrics. There is also little published data supporting the ability to reliably measure BPV across metrics in older adults. The present study derived BPV metrics from continuous beat-to-beat blood pressure monitoring data. Two sequential 7 min waveforms were analyzed. Absolute and relative reliability testing was performed. Differences between antihypertensive medication users and non-users on BPV metric reliability was also assessed. All sequence and dispersion based BPV metrics displayed good test–retest reliability. A measure of BP instability displayed only moderate reliability. Systolic and diastolic average real variability displayed the highest levels of reliability at ICC = 0.87 and 0.82 respectively. Additionally, systolic average real variability was the most reliable metric in both the antihypertensive use group, and the no antihypertensive use group. In conclusion, beat-to-beat dispersion and sequence-based metrics of BPV can be reliably obtained in older adults using noninvasive continuous blood pressure monitoring. Average real variability may be the most reliable and specific beat-to-beat blood pressure variability metric due to its decreased susceptibility to outliers and low frequency blood pressure oscillations.

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Title
Reliability of beat-to-beat blood pressure variability in older adults
Author
Lohman, Trevor 1 ; Sible, Isabel J. 2 ; Shenasa, Fatemah 3 ; Engstrom, Allison C. 3 ; Kapoor, Arunima 3 ; Alitin, John Paul M. 1 ; Gaubert, Aimee 1 ; Thayer, Julian F. 3 ; Ferrer, Farrah 1 ; Nation, Daniel A. 4 

 University of Southern California, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, USA (GRID:grid.42505.36) (ISNI:0000 0001 2156 6853) 
 University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, USA (GRID:grid.42505.36) (ISNI:0000 0001 2156 6853) 
 University of California, Department of Psychological Science, Irvine, USA (GRID:grid.266093.8) (ISNI:0000 0001 0668 7243) 
 University of Southern California, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, USA (GRID:grid.42505.36) (ISNI:0000 0001 2156 6853); University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA (GRID:grid.42505.36) (ISNI:0000 0001 2156 6853) 
Pages
20197
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3098953517
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.