Increased Skin Capillary Density in Treated Essential Hypertensive Patients

170 subjects, including 76 nondiabetic outpatients with essential hypertension under chronic antihypertensive drug treatment (BP < 140/90 mm Hg, age 55 +/- 1 years), 24 age- and sex-matched patients with recently discovered and never-treated hypertension, and 70 normotensive (BP < 140/90 mm Hg) age- and sex-matched healthy controls.

Chronic antihypertensive drug treatment achieving BP < 140/90 mm Hg

Recently discovered and never-treated hypertension, and normotensive healthy controls

Basal and maximal (during venous congestion) skin capillary densities in the dorsum of the fingerssurrogate