Epidemiology of masked and white-coat hypertension: the family-based SKIPOGH study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We investigated factors associated with masked and white-coat hypertension in a Swiss population-based sample.

Methods

The Swiss Kidney Project on Genes in Hypertension is a family-based cross-sectional study. Office and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure were measured using validated devices. Masked hypertension was defined as office blood pressure<140/90 mmHg and daytime ambulatory blood pressure≥135/85 mmHg. White-coat hypertension was defined as office blood pressure≥140/90 mmHg and daytime ambulatory blood pressure<135/85 mmHg. Mixed-effect logistic regression was used to examine the relationship of masked and white-coat hypertension with associated factors, while taking familial correlations into account. High-normal office blood pressure was defined as systol

SUBMITTER: Alwan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3963885 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature