In patients with mild essential hypertension, sleep blood pressure and heart rate depend mainly on elastic modulus and vascular resistance, while 24-hour BP variability is related to heart rate variation and baroreflex index.
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Supports vascular determinants of sleep BP in mild hypertension; leaves open causal links and therapeutic targeting pending prospective data.
Tochikubo et al. (1997) studied this question.
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