Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Reveals Increased Sleeping Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Individuals at High Altitude

Young, David; E. Keyes, Linda; Mather, Luke; B. Duke, C.; Rejmi, Nirajam; Phelan, Benoit; Pant, Sushil; Starling, Jennifer; K. McElwee, Matthew; Cole, Devlin; McConnell, Theodore; Paudel, Purshotam; Sallade, Douglas; L. Sheets, Allison; Twillman, David; Basynat, Buddha

doi:10.1016/j.wem.2016.06.014

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Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Reveals Increased Sleeping Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Individuals at High Altitude

Published in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine • Sep 1, 2016

Authors:

David Young

Linda E. Keyes

Luke Mather

Abstract

For those traveling to high altitude, it has been postulated that blood pressure (BP) changes when compared to sea level. Also at altitude, periodic breathing has been well described and is correlated to decreased sleep quality.

Subject

Blood pressure

Altitude (triangle)

Ambulatory blood pressure

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