title: [Ambulatory blood pressure measurement: clinical significance and prognostic evaluation of nocturnal arterial hypertension].
abstract: With the aim of determining the clinical and prognostic value of the onset of a cardiac and/or cerebral event and nocturnal hypertension, we retrospectively investigated 291 patients with essential hypertension by noninvasive ambulatory 24-hour blood pressure measurement. The patients were followed for 1809 +/- 107 days. During the follow-up period 21 patients suffered a nonfatal cardiovascular event. The patients experiencing this type of event showed a higher nocturnal systolic blood pressure and a smaller diurnal/nocturnal difference for systolic blood pressure values at diurnal blood pressure values comparable to those without a cardiovascular event. Patients with nocturnal hypertension, with or without inversion of the circadian rhythm, were statistically more likely to suffer a cardiovascular event than patients with a normal circadian profile. Our investigation revealed a certain prognostic value for nocturnal hypertension in the evaluation of essential hypertension, the prognosis being more favourable in hypertensive patients with a normal circadian profile.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie, Hôpital de la Tour, Meyrin, Genève.
authors.lastname: St Ciaroni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bloch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003971:Diastole; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013599:Systole
vernacular_title: La mesure ambulatoire de la pression artérielle: intérêt clinique et évaluation pronostique de l'hypertension artérielle nocturne.