The use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the evaluation of racial differences in blood pressure.
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.
Vaughan
C J
CJ
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Mercy Hospital and University College Cork, Ireland.
Murphy
M B
MB
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