Clinical impact of dipping and nocturnal blood pressure patterns in newly diagnosed, never-treated patients with essential hypertension

The significance of nondipping and increased nighttime systolic blood pressure (SBP) in established hypertension is well defined. We investigated whether these factors alone or combined correlate with vascular damage in early-stage hypertension. Newly diagnosed, untreated hypertensives were classified as dippers and nondippers according to ambulatory blood pressure (BP). Twenty-four –hour urinary albumin excretion and markers of arterial stiffness (pulse wave velocity, augmentation index, central and peripheral pulse pressure, central BP) and atherosclerosis (carotid intima-media thickness) were assessed.

Source: Journal of the American Society of Hypertension - August 27, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eugenia Gkaliagkousi, Panagiota Anyfanti, Antonios Lazaridis, Areti Triantafyllou, Anastasios Vamvakis, Nikolaos Koletsos, Panagiotis Dolgyras, Stella Douma Tags: Research Article Source Type: research