Non-dipping status in arterial hypertension is associated with increased cardiovascular risk and may be managed through chronotherapy or renin-angiotensin blockers.
This review highlights the cardiovascular risk associated with non-dipping hypertension and discusses potential management strategies including chronotherapy and renin-angiotensin blockers.
Non-dipping is a common pattern of arterial hypertension and it is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, as suggested in recent guidelines, could further increase its prevalence among subjects with hypertension. In this review we discuss assessment, relevance and associated factors. Non-dipping could be addressed through chronotherapy, the use of specific classes of anti-hypertensives, such as renin-angiotensin blockers, or modification of associated factors. However, more data are needed in order to comprehensively estimate factors associated with non-dipping and how they could be modified.
Sarigianni et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Arterial hypertension. Non-dipping status in arterial hypertension is associated with increased cardiovascular risk and may be managed through chronotherapy or renin-angiotensin blockers.