Is blunted heart rate decrease at night associated with prevalent organ damage in essential hypertension?

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-21

  Cuspidi, Cesare ^a,b   Meani, Stefano ^c   Negri, Francesca ^a,b   Valerio, Cristiana ^b   Sala, Carla ^d,e   Mancia, Giuseppe ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^c RHO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Policlinico di Milano   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

blood pressure monitoring; heart rate; hypertension; organ damage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY SIZE; BRADYCARDIA; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; ORGAN INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP;

EID: 78751660883     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e32834331fe     Document Type: Article

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