Abstract:
AIM To investigate the relationship between 24-hour blood pressure variability (BPV) and septal thickness in patients with essential hypertension.
METHODS A total of 347 patients hospitalized in the Department of Cardiology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University and diagnosed with essential hypertension from January 2020 to December 2020 were collected as the study subjects, including 216 males (62.25%) and 131 females (37.75%), with an average age of (50.30 ± 15.07) years. Twenty-four-hour ambulatory BP monitoring was performed to obtain the patients’ 24-hour blood pressure variability and interventricular septal thickness (IVST) was detected by echocardiography. The patients were divided into a normal interventricular septum group (NIVSH, 289 cases) and a thickened interventricular septum group (IVSH, 58 cases) according to IVST, and the relationship between 24-hour BPV and IVST was analyzed between the two groups.
RESULTS The standard deviation of blood pressure variation (SD) and average real variability (ARV) in the IVSH group were higher than those in the NIVSH group (both P<0.05). The results of correlation analysis showed that SD and ARV were significantly positively correlated with IVST in the total population (both P<0.05). The results of multiple linear regression analysis showed that the mean true variability of 24-hour systolic blood pressure had the strongest correlation with IVST β=0.099(0.050~0.148), P<0.01. Subgroup analyses showed that the mean true 24-hour systolic blood pressure variability was more strongly correlated with IVST in women, elderly (>65 years), overweight, and diabetic patients.
CONCLUSION Blood pressure variability is increased in patients with thickened interventricular septum. Average real variability of 24-hour systolic blood pressure correlates more strongly with IVST in women, elderly, overweight, and diabetic patients.