Masked hypertension is highly prevalent (approximately 33%) among African Americans with normal clinic blood pressure and is associated with greater target organ damage.
Masked hypertension may warrant ambulatory monitoring in African Americans with normal clinic BP; leaves open whether treatment reduces TOD.
In this population-based cohort of African Americans, approximately one-third of participants with presumably normal clinic BP had masked hypertension when BP was assessed in their daily environment. Masked hypertension was accompanied by a greater degree of TOD in this cohort.
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