Morning Surge in Blood Pressure as a Predictor of Silent and Clinical Cerebrovascular Disease in Elderly Hypertensives

Kario, Kazuomi; G. Pickering, Thomas; Umeda, Yuji; Hoshide, Satoshi; Hoshide, Yoko; Morinari, Masato; Murata, Mitsunobu; Kuroda, Toshio; E. Schwartz, Joseph; Shimada, Kazuyuki

doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000056521.67546.aa

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Morning Surge in Blood Pressure as a Predictor of Silent and Clinical Cerebrovascular Disease in Elderly Hypertensives

Published in Circulation • Mar 18, 2003

Authors:

Kazuomi Kario

Thomas G. Pickering

Yuji Umeda

Abstract

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 ...

Subject

Medicine

Morning

Ambulatory blood pressure

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