Blood pressure profile in patients with microvascular angina.
Normotensive patients with microvascular angina exhibit increased diastolic blood pressure and blood pressure loads during daily activities and decreased diurnal variation of systolic blood pressure, compared with age- and sex-matched normotensive controls. The abnormal blood pressure profile could play a role in the pathogenesis of microvascular angina.
Elisaf
M S
MS
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece.
Kalaitzidis
R G
RG
Goudevenos
J A
JA
Katsaraki
A E
AE
Sideris
D A
DA
Siamopoulos
K C
KC
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017566:Microvascular Angina / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology