Why the study?
Is blood pressure variability associated with left ventricular hypertrophy and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity in hypertensive patients?
Population
111 consecutive Japanese hypertensive patients hospitalized for an educational program under stable sodium…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Nighttime BP variability may mark target organ damage in hypertension; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice.
Is blood pressure variability associated with left ventricular hypertrophy and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity in hypertensive patients?
Nighttime blood pressure variability is independently associated with target organ damage, including left ventricular hypertrophy and arterial stiffness, in hypertensive patients.
Ozawa et al. (2009) studied this question.
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