Population
743 normotensive Caucasian volunteers (400 men and 343 women), mean age 45.7 +/- 16.5 years.
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
48 hours
Authors
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May support time-specific ABPM thresholds lower than constants, especially in women; leaves open prospective outcome validation before practice change.
Circadian time-specified reference limits for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring yield lower diagnostic thresholds than currently used constant values, particularly in women.
Hermida et al. (2004) studied this question.
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