Does sympathetic overactivation feature all hypertensives? Differences of sympathovagal balance according to night/day blood pressure ratio in patients with essential hypertension

Authors :: Valentina Zappulla
Carmelo Buttà
Alessandra Casuccio
Caterina Schimmenti
Antonio Pinto
Giuseppe Di Miceli
Domenico Di Raimondo
Antonino Tuttolomondo
Gaia Musiari
Di Raimondo, D.
Miceli, G.
Casuccio, A.
Tuttolomondo, A.
Buttà, C.
Zappulla, V.
Schimmenti, C.
Musiari, G.
Pinto, A.
Source :: Hypertension Research. 39:440-448
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
Abstract: When evaluating the 'night/day BP ratio', both hypertensives and normotensives can be arbitrarily classified into four groups: extreme dippers (ratio ⩽0.8), dippers (0.8

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