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by BenFranklin100 618 days ago
Well then, instead of being smug, how about providing a reference? Specifically, can you link to information about the distribution of individual blood pressure daily variances across a population? This is different from white coat hypertension,something which nearly all of us are familiar.

To get you going here is a 2009 article on labile hypertension. It discuss the topic but does not provide any quantitative information on population distribution.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8673041/

Edit: here’s a link to a more recent reference:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/251055/blood-pressure-variab...

Apparently, contrary to your assertion that an individual’s blood pressure variability is part of established 1st years med student’s knowledge, labile hypertension seems to be an active area of research.