Gender, day-night blood pressure changes, and left ventricular mass in essential hypertension Dippers and peakers

摘要: The finding of increased left ventricular (LV) mass in hypertensive subjects with blunted nocturnal fall blood pressure (BP) might be an artifact matching patients for daytime BP, resulting higher 24-h BP nondippers. Therefore, we compared a large number (n = 1048) dippers and nondippers their LV at echocardiography before after adjustment 24-h, daytime, nighttime ambulatory BP. In men, the difference between was not significant but greater (more properly “peakers”). women, than both while two groups disappeared Thus, any given level mean flattened diurnal profile is associated women. Daytime hypertension, either or may sufficient determinant wall thickening men.