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

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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 ...

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