Key result
Repeated ambulatory blood pressure monitoring revealed that 24.1% of untreated hypertensive patients changed their nocturnal dipping pattern, indicating limited short-term reproducibility.
Why the study?
Are nocturnal blood pressure dipping patterns reproducible on repeated ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in untreated essential hypertensive patients?
Population
619 never-treated essential grade 1 and 2 hypertensive patients (383 men, 236 women)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
within 4 weeks
Authors
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Single ABPM may misclassify nocturnal dipping; leaves open whether repeated monitoring refines hypertension phenotyping and risk stratification.
Observational (n=619)
Are nocturnal blood pressure dipping patterns reproducible on repeated ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in untreated essential hypertensive patients?
Absolute Event Rate: 80.1% vs 65.9%
Nocturnal blood pressure patterns have limited short-term reproducibility in untreated hypertensive patients, suggesting that reliable classification requires repeated ambulatory monitoring.
Cuspidi et al. (2007) conducted an observational in Essential hypertension (n=619). Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was evaluated on Reproducibility of dipping/nondipping pattern. Repeated ambulatory blood pressure monitoring revealed that 24.1% of untreated hypertensive patients changed their nocturnal dipping pattern, indicating limited short-term reproducibility.
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