Diminished Nocturnal Blood Pressure Decline and Lesion Site in Cerebrovascular Disease

126 subjects including 14 controls, 15 hypertensive subjects, 90 patients with cerebrovascular disease (16 single lacunar infarctions, 15 multiple lacunar infarctions, 10 putaminal hemorrhages, 14 thalamic hemorrhages, 11 pontine base infarctions, 15 pontine tegmentum infarctions, 8 pontine hemorrhages, 13 wide cortical infarctions), and 7 patients with recurring stroke episodes.

Specific location of cerebrovascular lesions (assessed via ambulatory blood pressure monitoring every 30 minutes)

Controls, hypertensive subjects without cerebrovascular disease, and patients with different cerebrovascular lesion sites

Percentage of nocturnal blood pressure declinesurrogate