Total cardiovascular risk, blood pressure variability and adrenergic overdrive in hypertension: evidence, mechanisms and clinical implications
Current Hypertension Reports, 05/07/2012
Grassi G et al. – Recent findings suggest that also sympathetic overdrive and alterations in blood pressure variability (which are detected in hypertension) may participate at the increased cardiovascular risk of the patients with high blood pressure. This review will discuss the evidence collected over the past few years on the relationships between sympathetic activation and blood pressure variability and their impact on cardiovascular risk profile.
