Age-Specific Differences Between Conventional and Ambulatory Daytime Blood Pressure Values

David Conen*, Stefanie Aeschbacher, Lutgarde Thijs, Yan Li, Jose Boggia, Kei Asayama, Tine W. Hansen, Masahiro Kikuya, Krishna Bjorklund-Bodegard, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Jorgen Jeppesen, Yu-Mei Gu, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Eamon Dolan, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Valerie Tikhonoff, Tobias Schoen, Sofia Malyutina, Edoardo CasigliaYuri Nikitin, Lars Lind, Edgardo Sandoya, Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Luis Mena, Gladys E. Maestre, Jan Filipovsky, Yutaka Imai, Eoin O'Brien, Ji-Guang Wang, Lorenz Risch, Jan A. Staessen

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Abstract

Mean daytime ambulatory blood pressure (BP) values are considered to be lower than conventional BP values, but data on this relation among younger individuals = 70 years, conventional BP was significantly higher than daytime ambulatory BP (5.0 and 13.0 mm Hg for systolic; 2.0 and 4.2 mm Hg for diastolic BP; all P= 70 years, with little variation between men and women (8.0% versus 6.1%; P=0.0003). Masked hypertension was more prevalent among men (21.1% versus 11.4%; P
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1073–1079
JournalHypertension
Volume64
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2014

Keywords

  • age group
  • ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
  • blood pressure
  • epidemiology
  • hypertension

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