Significance of White-Coat Hypertension in Older Persons With Isolated Systolic Hypertension A Meta-Analysis Using the International Database on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Relation to Cardiovascular Outcomes Population

  • Stanley S. Franklin
  • , Lutgarde Thijs
  • , Tine W. Hansen
  • , Yan Li
  • , Jose Boggia
  • , Masahiro Kikuya
  • , Kristina Bjoerklund-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 Sandoya
  • , Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz
  • Yutaka Imai, Jiguang Wang, Hans Ibsen, Eoin O'Brien, Jan A. Staessen*
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The significance of white-coat hypertension in older persons with isolated systolic hypertension remains poorly understood. We analyzed subjects from the population-based 11-country International Database on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Relation to Cardiovascular Outcomes database who had daytime ambulatory blood pressure (BP; ABP) and conventional BP (CBP) measurements. After excluding persons with diastolic hypertension by CBP (>= 90 mm Hg) or by daytime ABP (>= 85 mm Hg), a history of cardiovascular disease, and persons= 140/
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)564-U96
Number of pages8
JournalHypertension
Volume59
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2012

Keywords

  • isolated systolic hypertension
  • ambulatory blood pressure
  • white-coat hypertension
  • white-coat effect
  • cardiovascular disease
  • epidemiology

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