Morning surge in blood pressure as a predictor of silent and clinical cerebrovascular disease in elderly hypertensives - A prospective study
Morning surge in blood pressure as a predictor of silent and clinical cerebrovascular disease in elderly hypertensives - A prospective study
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.0000056521.67546.aa
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发表时间:
2003-03-18
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37.8
通讯作者:
Shimada, K
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作者:
Kario, K;Pickering, TG;Shimada, K
Background-Cardiovascular events occur most frequently in the morning hours. We prospectively studied the association between the morning blood pressure (BP) surge and stroke in elderly hypertensives.Methods and Results-We studied stroke prognosis in 519 older hypertensives in whom ambulatory BP monitoring was performed and silent cerebral infarct was assessed by brain MRI and who were followed up prospectively. The morning BP surge (MS) was calculated as follows: mean systolic BP during the 2 hours after awakening minus mean systolic BP during the 1 hour that included the lowest sleep BP. During an average duration of 41 months (range 1 to 68 months), 44 stroke events occurred. When the patients were divided into 2 groups according to MS, those in the top decile (MS group; MS greater than or equal to55 mm Hg, n=53) had a higher baseline prevalence of multiple infarcts (57% versus 33%, P=0.001) and a higher stroke incidence (19% versus 7.3%, P=0.004) during the follow-up period than the others (non-MS group; MS