Masked Hypertension in Diabetes Mellitus Treatment Implications for Clinical Practice

Stanley S. Franklin, Lutgarde Thijs, Yan Li, Tine W. Hansen, Jose Boggia, Yanping Liu, Kei Asayama, Kristina Bjorklund-Bodegard, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Jorgen Jeppesen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Eamon Dolan, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Valerie Tikhonoff, Sofia Malyutina, Edoardo Casiglia, Yuri Nikitin, Lars Lind, Edgardo SandoyaKalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Jan Filipovsky, Yutaka Imai, Jiguang Wang, Hans Ibsen, Eoin O'Brien, Jan A. Staessen*

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Abstract

Although distinguishing features of masked hypertension in diabetics are well known, the significance of antihypertensive treatment on clinical practice decisions has not been fully explored. We analyzed 9691 subjects from the population-based 11-country International Database on Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Relation to Cardiovascular Outcomes. Prevalence of masked hypertension in untreated normotensive participants was higher (P
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)964–971
JournalHypertension
Volume61
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2013

Keywords

  • ambulatory blood pressure
  • conventional blood pressure
  • diabetes mellitus
  • masked hypertension
  • population study

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