Does the Dundee Step Test predict outcome in treated hypertension? A sub-study protocol for the ASCOT trial

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-78

  Lim, Pitt O ^a,b   Donnan, P T ^a   MacDonald, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASCOT study; Dundee Step Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DUNDEE STEP TEST; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AMLODIPINE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ATENOLOL; BENDROFLUMETHIAZIDE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIURETICS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERINDOPRIL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034000962     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1000931     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Isles CG et al. Mortality in patients of the Glasgow Blood Pressure Clinic. J Hypertens 1986; 4: 141-156.
2. Pickering TG. The influence of daily activity on ambulatory blood pressure. Am Heart J 1988; 116: 1141-1145.
3. Devereux RB et al. Left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with hypertension: importance of blood pressure response to regularly recurring stress. Circulation 1983; 68: 470-476.
4. Frattola A et al. Prognostic value of 24-hour blood pressure variability. J Hypertens 1993; 11: 1133-1137.
5. Lim PO, MacFadyen RJ, MacDonald TM. White-coat hypertension. Lancet 1996; 348: 1445.
6. Akhras F, Jackson G. Raised exercise diastolic blood pressure as indicator of ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction. Lancet 1991; 337: 899-900.
7. Lim PO, Shiels P, MacDonald TM. The Dundee Step Test: a novel exercise test suitable for the outpatient management of hypertension. J Hypertens 1998; 16: 1701.
8. Oparil S. Long-term morbidity and mortality trials with amlodipine. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1999; 33: S1-S6.
9. Lim PO, Shiels P, Anderson JE, MacDonald TM. Dundee Step Test: a simple method of measuring the blood pressure response to exercise. J Hum Hypertens 13: 521-526.
10. Mundal R et al. Exercise blood pressure predicts cardiovascular mortality in middle-aged men. Hypertension 1994; 24: 56-62.
11. Filipovsky J, Ducimetiere P, Safar ME. Prognostic significance of exercise blood pressure and heart rate in middle-aged men. Hypertension 1992; 20: 333-339.
12. Hsieh FY. Sample size tables for logistic regression. Statistics in Med 1989; 8: 795-802.
13. Lim PO, MacFadyen RJ, Clarkson PB, MacDonald TM. Impaired exercise tolerance in hypertensive patients. Ann Intern Med 1996; 124: 41-55.
14. Mundal R et al. Clustering of coronary risk factors with increasing blood pressure at rest and during exercise. J Hypertens 1998; 16: 19-22.