We assessed how different definitions of the awake and asleep periods and use of various blood pressure (BP) indices affect the extent of the nocturnal BP dip, the prevalence of dippers and nondippers, their respective reproducibilities and the relation of nondipping with target-organ damage.
Different classifications of nocturnal blood pressure dipping affect the prevalence of dippers and nondippers and the relation with target-organ damage.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Subdivision Vascular Medicine, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. leon.henskens@intmed.unimaas.nl