Clinical Significance of Nighttime Blood Pressure / 대한내과학회지
Korean Journal of Medicine
; : 31-35, 2011.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-24576
Responsible library:
WPRO
ABSTRACT
It was impossible to measure the nighttime blood pressure in patients with hypertension for more than one hundred years. The introduction of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring made it possible to evaluate the nighttime blood pressure and clinical significances in recent 40 years. There are tremendous evidences for proving that the nighttime blood pressure is the more powerful predictor in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than conventional office and ambulatory daytime blood pressure. The cardiovascular mortality can be reduced when 5% of nighttime blood pressure decreased from Ohasama registry report. So investigators should reevaluate the antihypertensive drugs in the view points of nighttime blood pressure reduction. And changing the administration schedule of antihypertensive drugs, so called chronotherapy, is effective for controlling the nighttime blood pressure and modifying the blood pressure circadian rhythm. Korean Ambulatory Blood Pressure (KORABP), nationwide ambulatory blood pressure monitoring registry in Korea, may answer unproved questions for controlling nighttime blood pressure.
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Health context:
SDG3 - Target 3.4 Reduce premature mortality due to noncommunicable diseases
Health problem:
Arterial Hypertension
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Cardiovascular Disease
Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Appointments and Schedules
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Research Personnel
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Blood Pressure
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Circadian Rhythm
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Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
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Chronotherapy
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Hypertension
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Korea
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Antihypertensive Agents
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Medicine
Year:
2011
Document type:
Article