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Factors affecting variability in home blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes: post hoc analysis of a cross-sectional multicenter study

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Recent studies have shown that variability in home blood pressure has an important role in the progression of organ damage. The objective of this study was to investigate the factors that affect variability in home blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes. We assessed the relationship between home blood pressure variability, defined as coefficient of variation of mean of triplicate morning and evening blood pressure for 14 consecutive days, and various factors using univariate and multivariate linear regression analyses in 1114 patients with type 2 diabetes. Age (β=0.149, P<0.001), female sex (β=0.125, P=0.010), duration of diabetes mellitus (β=0.103, P=0.005), heart rate (β=0.136, P<0.001), current smoker (β=0.118, P=0.005), white-coat hypertension (β=0.136, P=0.002) and treatment with calcium channel blockers (β=−0.094, P=0.024) were independently associated with coefficient of variation of morning systolic blood pressure. Our findings implicate that factors that might be intervened such as heart rate, smoking status, use of antihypertensive medication in addition to age, sex and duration of diabetes mellitus are associated with variability in home blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes.

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We thank Shinobu Matsumoto, Atsushi Omoto, Wataru Fukuda, Masayoshi Ohnishi and Yoshihiro Kitagawa for collecting data, Naoko Higo, Machiko Hasegawa and Terumi Kaneko for teaching patients how to measure their blood pressure and Sayoko Horibe, Hiroko Kawamura and Haruka Ooseto for their secretarial assistance.

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  1. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto, Japan

    E Ushigome, M Fukui, M Yamazaki, G Hasegawa & N Nakamura

  2. Immunology Frontier Research Center at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    M Hamaguchi

  3. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

    T Tanaka

  4. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

    H Atsuta

  5. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Osaka General Hospital of West Japan Railway Company, Osaka, Japan

    S-i Mogami

  6. Department of Cardiology, Nishijin Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

    Y Oda

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Ushigome, E., Fukui, M., Hamaguchi, M. et al. Factors affecting variability in home blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes: post hoc analysis of a cross-sectional multicenter study. J Hum Hypertens 28, 594–599 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/jhh.2014.2

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