Why the study?
Does chronic renal failure alter the nocturnal blood pressure profile compared to essential hypertension?
Population
60 patients: 30 hypertensive patients with chronic renal failure due to non-vascular nephropathies, matched…
Comparison
Noninvasive, automatic, blood pressure… vs Patients with uncomplicated mild-to-moderate…
Design
Case-control
Follow-up
48 hours
Authors
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Renal hypertension may warrant ambulatory monitoring to detect nocturnal BP rises; leaves open independent prognostic value versus essential hypertension.
Does chronic renal failure alter the nocturnal blood pressure profile compared to essential hypertension?
Hypertensive patients with chronic renal failure lack the normal nocturnal decline in blood pressure, indicating that daytime-only measurements may underestimate their true hypertensive burden.
Portaluppi et al. (1991) studied this question.
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