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Ambulatory blood pressure in normotensive and hypertensive subjects

DOI

112

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0

References

1994

Year

Jan A. Staessen, Eoin T. O Brien, Antoon Amery, Neil Atkins, Peter Baumgart, Paul De Cort, J P Degaute, Primož Dolenc, R. De Gaudemaris, Inger Enstr m,
Journal of Hypertension

Abstract

The ABP distributions of the normotensive subjects included in the present international database were not materially different from those in previous reports in the literature. One-fifth to more than one-third of hypertensive subjects had an ABP which was below the 95th centile of the ABP of normotensive subjects, but this proportion decreased if the hypertensive subjects had shown a higher CBP upon repeated measurement. The prognostic implications of elevated CBP in the presence of normal ABP remain to be determined.