Clinical significance of blood pressure variability in hypertension

To specify blood pressure (BP) rhythm and variabily at 24-hour monitoring. 24-hour BP monitoring, cardiac echocardiography, measurements of central hemodynamics and vegetative regulation of cardiac rhythm and psychic status were performed in 178 hypertensive subjects. Progression of cardiac function...

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Published inTerapevtic̆eskii arhiv Vol. 71; no. 1; p. 22
Main Authors Mazur, E S, Kaliazina, V V
Format Journal Article
LanguageRussian
Published Russia (Federation) 1999
Subjects
Blood Pressure - physiology
Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
Circadian Rhythm - physiology
Echocardiography
Follow-Up Studies
Heart Ventricles - diagnostic imaging
Heart Ventricles - physiopathology
Humans
Hypertension - diagnostic imaging
Hypertension - physiopathology
Hypertension - psychology
Male
Middle Aged
Psychological Tests
Severity of Illness Index
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Summary:To specify blood pressure (BP) rhythm and variabily at 24-hour monitoring. 24-hour BP monitoring, cardiac echocardiography, measurements of central hemodynamics and vegetative regulation of cardiac rhythm and psychic status were performed in 178 hypertensive subjects. Progression of cardiac function impairment is associated with reduced lowering of night blood pressure and sleep variability, stable BP variability in awake patients. A close negative relationship exists between night BP fall and peripheral resistance, BP night variability and anxiety level. Decreased lowering of night BP seems to reflect morphological changes in the vascular wall, increased variability of wakeful BP reflects less exercise tolerance, that of night BP variability--of growing somatogenically conditioned sympathicotonia and associated anxiety disorders.
ISSN:0040-3660