title: [Left ventricular hypertrophy and blood pressure values during 24-hour ambulatory monitoring and office measurements in essential hypertension].
abstract: 119 hypertensive patients were examined by 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and traditional (casual) blood pressure measurements. The echocardiographic examination was also performed. Mean and maximal systolic and diastolic blood pressure values, systolic and diastolic pressure amplitude as well as traditional blood pressure values were correlated with left ventricular walls thickness and left ventricular mass. Maximal values were obtained for left ventricular mass and mean systolic blood pressure (especially in the evening). No statistically significant correlation was stated for left ventricular mass and systolic pressure amplitude. The correlation coefficients of left ventricular mass and wall thickness with ABPM were significantly higher than those calculated from echocardiographic parameters and traditional blood pressure measurements.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Nadciśnienia Tetniczego Instytutu Kardiologii, Warszawa.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kabat
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Michalak
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Szaroszyk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic