12 Microalbuminuria in elderly hypertensives: variability and relation to clinic and ambulatory blood pressure

64 untreated elderly hypertensives (mean age 74.7 years, range 64-82) with systolic blood pressure ≥ 160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 95 mmHg, or both, who had not received antihypertensive treatment for at least 4 weeks.

Within-patient reproducibility of 24-h urinary microalbumin and electrolyte excretion and relation to 24-h and clinic blood pressure levelssurrogate