Why the study?
Do antihypertensive drugs affect central blood pressure differently than peripheral blood pressure?
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Should not yet guide antihypertensive selection by central effects; leaves open whether central BP monitoring improves risk stratification.
Do antihypertensive drugs affect central blood pressure differently than peripheral blood pressure?
Antihypertensive drugs have differential effects on central versus peripheral blood pressure, which may provide additional cardiovascular risk information beyond peripheral blood pressure alone.
Papaioannou et al. (2009) studied this question.
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