Carotid atherosclerosis and the association between nocturnal blood pressure dipping and cardiovascular events.

ABSTRACT: The impact of a nondipping blood pressure (BP) pattern, defined as (awake systolic BP - sleep systolic BP)/awake systolic BP < 0.1, on cardiovascular events in populations with different degrees of carotid atherosclerosis is uncertain. The authors hypothesized that a nondipping BP pattern would show differential predictive power for cardiovascular events, including total cardiovascular death, sudden death, nonfatal cardiovascular events, and nonfatal stroke, between populations with and without carotid atherosclerosis. To test this hypothesis, the authors analyzed 493 patients (mean age 67.9 years, 47.5% men) from the J-HOP (Japan Morning Surge-Home Blood Pressure) study for whom ambulatory BP monitoring and carotid intima-media thickness data were available. Twenty-nine cardiovascular eve

SUBMITTER: Kotruchin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8030997 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature