Association of blood pressure variability with target organ damage in older patients with essential hypertension.

Background: Although multiple measures of blood pressure variability (BPV) have been proposed, whether they are better than mean blood pressure in predicting target organs is unclear. We aimed to determine the relationship between short term BPV and target organ injury.

Methods: This study was a retrospective study, and 635 inpatients in the Department of Cardiology from 2015 to 2020 were selected.