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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages 1035-1038Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(00)00261-2
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ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; variability; diurnal fall; dipping
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An absent or diminished blood pressure (BP) fall during sleep (so-called nondipping) has been associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular complications, but the long-term reproducibility of dipper status and the relationship between diurnal changes in BP and perceived sleep quality have not been previously documented in untreated hypertensive patients. Ambulatory BP (ABP) and dipping status were examined in 79 subjects (69 hypertensives and 10 normotensives) at 0, 6, and 12 months. Fifty-six percent of subjects had no change in their dipping status, the majority (53%) dipping normally on all three occasions. However, 44% of patients had variable dipping status, and normal nighttime dipping in BP was observed more often when patients perceived their sleep quality to be good during the period of ABP recording. These results highlight significant intrasubject variability in the diurnal fluctuations in ABP and dipper status, which may in part reflect day-to-day variations in sleep disturbance during ABP monitoring. Classifying hypertensive patients into dippers or nondippers on the basis of a single ABP recording is unreliable and potentially misleading. Am J Hypertens 2000;13:1035-1038 (C) 2000 American Journal of Hypertension, Ltd.
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