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ReviewHypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension2018

Diurnal blood pressure changes.

Kei Asayama, Michihiro Satoh, Masahiro Kikuya

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Review in Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Self-measured home blood pressure highlights cardiovascular risk in women: the HOMED-BP study.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2023
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  11. The dawning of the digital era in the management of hypertension.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2020
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  12. Blood pressure and heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity in white-coat, masked, and sustained hypertension.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2020
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  13. Do reverse dippers have the highest risk of right ventricular remodeling?Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2020
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  14. Effects of white-coat, masked and sustained hypertension on coronary artery stenosis and cardiac arrhythmia.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2020
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  15. White-coat and masked hypertension and coronary artery disease: are they related or not?Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2020
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  17. Blood pressure cutoffs for white-coat and masked effects in a large population undergoing home blood pressure monitoring.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2019
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  20. Implications of blood pressure variations in older populations.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kei AsayamaDepartment of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. kei@asayama.org.
Michihiro SatohDivision of Public Health, Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan.
Masahiro KikuyaDepartment of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The definition of diurnal blood pressure changes varies widely, which can be confusing. Short-term blood pressure variability during a 24-h period and the dipping status of diurnal blood pressure can be captured by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and these metrics are reported to have prognostic significance for cardiovascular complications. Morning blood pressure surge also indicates this risk, but its effect may be limited to populations with specific conditions. Meanwhile, the combined use of conventional office blood pressure and out-of-office blood pressure allows us to identify people with white-coat and masked hypertension. Current home devices can measure nocturnal blood pressure during sleep more conveniently than ambulatory monitoring; however, we should pay attention to blood pressure measurement conditions regardless of whether they are in a home, ambulatory, or office setting. The relatively poor reproducibility of diurnal blood pressure changes, including the nocturnal fall of blood pressure, is another underestimated issue to be addressed. Although information on diurnal blood pressure changes is expected to be used more effectively in the future, we should also keep in mind that blood pressure levels have remained central to the primary and secondary prevention of blood pressure-related cardiovascular diseases in clinical practice.

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Blood PressureCircadian RhythmHumansHypertensionReproducibility of Results

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