Why the study?
Does a mean daytime ambulatory blood pressure < 134/90 mm Hg identify hypertensive patients with target organ damage similar to healthy normotensives?
Population
Clinically hypertensive subjects and healthy normotensive control subjects
Comparison
Mean daytime ambulatory blood pressure levels <… vs Healthy normotensive control subjects
Design
Review
Authors
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May support ABP <134/90 mm Hg to flag low LVH-risk hypertensives; leaves open prospective outcome validation before practice change.
Does a mean daytime ambulatory blood pressure < 134/90 mm Hg identify hypertensive patients with target organ damage similar to healthy normotensives?
Mean daytime ambulatory blood pressure <134/90 mm Hg identifies hypertensive patients with target organ damage (LV mass) comparable to healthy normotensives, suggesting a potential threshold for defining normal ABP.
Verdecchia et al. (1993) studied this question.
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