title: The use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the evaluation of racial differences in blood pressure.
abstract: Ethnic differences in 24h blood pressure profiles exist, and 24h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring shows that blacks have a higher nocturnal blood pressure associated with a small diurnal change in pressure. Studies in adolescents suggest that these diurnal differences antedate adulthood. Nocturnal blood pressure may be independently important in the pathogenesis of left ventricular hypertrophy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Mercy Hospital and University College Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Vaughan
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D001794:Blood Pressure; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000208:ethnology / Q000503:physiopathology; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000208:ethnology / Q000503:physiopathology; D044469:Racial Groups; D044465:White People