title: [Heart rate and blood pressure variabilities in mild to moderate hypertensive patients with or without left ventricular hypertrophy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) variability in hypertensives with or without left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-three mild to moderate hypertensive patients, mean age 45 +/- 15 years, underwent an echocardiogram, a 24 hr ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM), a 24 hr ECG monitoring and a continuous BP recording over 15 minutes both in supine and standing positions, by using digital plethysmography (Finapres device).
  
  
  METHODS
  non parametric tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  [table: see text]
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  LVH is associated with a reduction in the markers of sympathetic activity and a decreased baroreflex sensitivity.
authors.affiliation: Service cardiologie B, CHRU Poitiers.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Herpin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ragot
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Borderon
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ferrandis
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Siché
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Mallion
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Demange
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004452:Echocardiography; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010991:Plethysmography
vernacular_title: Variabilité sinusale et variabilité tensionnelle de l'hypertendu léger à modéré avec ou sans hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche.