Short-term blood pressure variability as an indicator of the adaptive capacity of patients with chronic heart failure

Natalia S Akimova, Larisa E Konshina, Anastasiya E Runnova, Maksim O Zhuravlev, Tatyana M Bogdanova, Anton R Kiselev, Yury G Shvarts · 2025

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Natalia Akimova and co-authors study short-term blood pressure swings in patients with chronic heart failure, in this 2025 paper. A six-minute walk test can reveal how much reserve a patient's heart holds, but many readings rely on heart rate, which common heart drugs blunt. The team compared patients who took those drugs with patients who had not taken them for a month.

In both groups, a bigger swing in systolic pressure around the walk test tracked with better heart measures on ultrasound. The drug group showed no link between reserve markers and standard scan measures. The authors propose pressure swings as a reserve sign that works whether or not patients take the drugs.

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CREATORNatalia S Akimova, Larisa E Konshina, Anastasiya E Runnova, Maksim O Zhuravlev, Tatyana M Bogdanova, Anton R Kiselev, Yury G Shvarts
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE23 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12767241

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