title: The relationship between dipping-non-dipping arterial blood pressure pattern and frequency of restless leg syndrome with related factors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The lack of nocturnal decline in blood pressure (BP) is associated with an increase in cardiovascular events. Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is an uncomfortable feeling in which the patient wants to budge the legs with ache in the legs. RLS also increases the hypertension and cardiovascular risk. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between dipping and non-dipping blood pressure patterns with RLS and its severity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred patients who had 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) were enrolled into this cross-sectional study. They were classified by blood pressure pattern as dipping and non-dipping. Then, 100 patients with the dipper pattern and 100 patients with the non-dipper pattern were chosen. A questionnaire for RLS diagnosis that was prepared by the International RLS Study Group was given performed to the patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  RLS symptom score was higher in patients with non-dipping blood pressure patterns (NDBPP), and patients with NDBPP had more severe RLS. Beside this, there were no differences in terms of RLS frequency in dipping and non-dipping blood pressure patterns.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As a conclusion, dipping and non-dipping blood pressure patterns do not increase RLS risk. But, if patients with NDBPP have RLS, they have more severe RLS. So, we suggest that evaluating a patient with a non-dipping blood pressure pattern, considering RLS, would be helpful to ameliorate the quality of life of the patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Afyon Kocatepe University; Afyonkarahisar-Turkey. drsenaulu@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Sena Memnune
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ulu
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ahsen
authors.forename: Önder
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Akcı
authors.forename: Fatima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yaman
authors.forename: Kasım
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: Gökhan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yaman
authors.forename: Şeref
authors.initials: Ş
authors.lastname: Yüksel
authors.forename: Gürsel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Acartürk
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012148:Restless Legs Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires