Characteristics of Patients with Reproducible Masked Hypertension and its Diagnosis Approach
Autor: | М. I. Smirnova, V. M. Gorbunov, Ya. N. Koshelyaevskaya, A. D. Deev, D. A. Volkov, N. V. Furman, P. V. Dolotovskaya |
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Jazyk: | English<br />Russian |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Zdroj: | Рациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологии, Vol 15, Iss 6, Pp 789-794 (2020) |
Druh dokumentu: | article |
ISSN: | 1819-6446 2225-3653 |
DOI: | 10.20996/1819-6446-2019-15-6-789-794 |
Popis: | Background. Early diagnostics of masked hypertension (MH) is one of the key problems in modern cardiology due to the association of this blood pressure (BP) phenotype with doubled cardiovascular risk in comparison with normotension (NT). The current hypertension guidelines list numerous conditions, when the ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) is desirable in patients with normal office BP. However this list does not represent clearly defined, agreed and approved indications for ABPM as a diagnostic tool for MH.Aim. To develop a method of MH diagnostics for the use in routine clinical practice based on the comparing characteristics of patients with reproducible MH vs NT.Material and methods. The patients were selected from two trials that used ABPM (n=1778). The selection criteria included age 40-79 years, office BP |
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