Authors
Stanley S Franklin, Lutgarde Thijs, Yan Li, Tine W Hansen, Jose Boggia, Yanping Liu, Kei Asayama, Kristina Björklund-Bodegård, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Jørgen Jeppesen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Eamon Dolan, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Valerie Tikhonoff, Sofia Malyutina, Edoardo Casiglia, Yuri Nikitin, Lars Lind, Edgardo Sandoya, Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Jan Filipovský, Yutaka Imai, Jiguang Wang, Hans Ibsen, Eoin O’Brien, Jan A Staessen
Publication date
2013/5
Journal
Hypertension
Volume
61
Issue
5
Pages
964-971
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Description
Although distinguishing features of masked hypertension in diabetics are well known, the significance of antihypertensive treatment on clinical practice decisions has not been fully explored. We analyzed 9691 subjects from the population-based 11-country International Database on Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Relation to Cardiovascular Outcomes. Prevalence of masked hypertension in untreated normotensive participants was higher (P<0.0001) among 229 diabetics (29.3%, n=67) than among 5486 nondiabetics (18.8%, n=1031). Over a median of 11.0 years of follow-up, the adjusted risk for a composite cardiovascular end point in untreated diabetic-masked hypertensives tended to be higher than in normotensives (hazard rate [HR], 1.96; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.97–3.97; P=0.059), similar to untreated stage 1 hypertensives (HR, 1.07; CI, 0.58–1.98; P=0.82), but less than stage 2 hypertensives (HR, 0.53 …
Scholar articles
SS Franklin, L Thijs, Y Li, TW Hansen, J Boggia, Y Liu… - Hypertension, 2013