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See Latest ArticlesDipping pattern of nocturnal blood pressure in patients with hypertension
Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy , 06/12/09
Fagard RH et al. – Findings show that a reverse dipping pattern is associated with worse prognosis in hypertensive pts.
Methods- Review of the dipping pattern of nocturnal blood pressure in hypertensive pts
- Assessment of prognostic significance of 4 dipping categories in hypertension
- Large meta-analysis of individual pt data
- Dipping categories based on night–day blood pressure ratio from 24-hr ambulatory blood pressure recordings
- Extreme dippers: night–day blood pressure ratio ≤0.8
- Dippers: 0.8 < ratio ≤0.9
- Nondippers: 0.9 < ratio ≤1.0
- Reverse dippers: ratio > 1.0
- In hypertensive pts without cardiovascular disease at baseline and with statistical adjustment for confounders and 24-hr blood pressure, mortality is lower in extreme dippers vs dippers
- Incidence of cardiovascular events higher in reverse dippers
- Worst prognosis for reverse dippers in hypertensive pts with major cardiovascular disease at baseline
- Higher incidences of cardiovascular events and mortality in reverse dippers vs with dippers in comprehensive meta-analysis of population-based studies
- Outcome not significantly different between extreme dippers vs dippers
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