title: [Absence of nocturnal decrease in blood pressure in 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: an indication of secondary hypertension].
abstract: Non invasive 24 hours ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed in 81 patients with secondary hypertension (renoparenchymatous nephropathy n = 15, diabetic nephropathy n = 10, Conn's disease n = 4, renal artery stenosis n = 15, pheochromocytoma n = 2, hemodialysis patients n = 15 and patients after kidney transplantation n = 20). The results were compared to 201 patients with essential hypertension. The results showed that 98.5% of patients with essential hypertension have a nightly decline in blood pressure of at least 15 mmHg (systolic + diastolic), whereas 69% of patients with secondary hypertension showed either an attenuated circadian rhythm or no circadian rhythm. Patients with pheochromocytoma who had a night time increase in blood pressure demonstrated the greatest difference to the essential hypertension collective followed by patients with diabetic nephropathy, Conn's disease and the group of patients after kidney transplantation. After successful treatment of the condition leading to hypertension circadian periodicity returned in some patients. In summary these results suggest that the absence of a night time decline in blood pressure during 24-hour-ambulatory monitoring is an indication of secondary hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Nephrologie und Rheumatologie, Medizinische Universitätsklinik Göttingen.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schrader
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Person
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Pfertner
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Buhr-Schinner
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schoel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Warneke
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haupt
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scheler
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D000328:Adult; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000150:complications; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000209:etiology; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000150:complications; D006435:Renal Dialysis
vernacular_title: Fehlender nächtlicher Blutdruckabfall in der 24-Stunden Blutdruckmessung: Hinweis auf eine sekundäre Hypertonie.