To the Editor,
We would like to thank authors for their interest in our paper (1) and their valuable comment.
The main aim of our study (1) was to know which method of blood pressure variability assessment is better in predicting the complications; thus, our inclusion and exclusion criteria as well as the study design were selected to answer this main question. We did not collect data regarding obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or atrial fibrillation. However, we could figure out the prevalence of obesity in our data as it is relatively related to OSA. The prevalence of obesity in our data was 16.4%. Interestingly, after applying Mann–Whitney U test, we found that obese patients are more likely to present with high systolic BPV in their visit-to-visit measurements with a significant p-value of 0.03.
We think such comments open a new area of research to find other possible causes of high BPV as few studies had tackled this issue.
References
- 1.Taher ZA, Khayyat WW, Balubaid MM, Tashkandi MY, Khayyat HA, Kinsara AJ. The effect of blood pressure variability on the prognosis of hypertensive patients. Anatol J Cardiol. 2019;22:112–6. doi: 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2019.00905. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]