ABPM – Nocturnal blood pressure

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Staessen JA, Atkins N, Fagard R, O’Brien ET, Thijs L, Vyncke G, Amery A. Correlates of the diurnal blood pressure profile in a population study. High Blood Press 1993;2:271-282.

O’Brien E, Atkins N, Staessen J. Are overnight dip and target-organ damage related? A clinical perspective. Blood Pressure Monitoring 1996;1(Suppl 1);S42-S48

Staessen JA, Thijs L, Fagard R, Bieniaszwski L, O’Brien E, Gosse P, Hayashi H, Imai Y, Kawasaki K, Otsuka K, Palatini P. Nocturnal Blood Pressure Fall. Hypertension. 1997;30:1295-1296.

Staessen J, O’Brien E, Bieniaszewski L, Imai Y, Thijis L, Fagard R on behalf of the ‘Ad Hoc’ Working Group. The Nocturnal Blood Pressure Fall on Ambulatory Monitoring in a Large International Database. Hypertension 1997;29:30-39.

Stolarz K, Staessen JA, O’Brien E Night-tine blood pressure – dipping into the future? J Hypertens 2002;20:2131-2133

Boggia J, Li Y, Thijs L, Hansen TW, Kikuya M, Björklund-Bodegård K, Richart T, Ohkubo T, Kuznetsova T, Torp?Pedersen C, Lind L, Ibsen H, Imai Y, Wang J, Sandoya E, O’Brien E, Staessen JA, on behalf of the International Database on Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in relation to Cardiovascular Outcomes (IDACO) Investigators. Prognostic accuracy of day versus night ambulatory blood pressure: a cohort study. Lancet 2007;370:1219-1229

O’Brien E. Sleepers v non-sleepers.: a new twist in the dipper/non-dipper concept. Hypertension 2007;49:769-770

Lia Y, Boggia J, Thijs L, Hansen TW, Kikuya M, Bjo rklund-Bodega rd K, Richart T, Ohkubo T, Kuznetsova T, Torp-Pedersen C, Lind L, Ibsen H, Imai Y, Wang J, Sandoya E, O’Brien E, Staessen JA, on behalf of the International Database on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in relation to Cardiovascular Outcomes Investigators. Is blood pressure during the night more predictive of cardiovascular outcome than during the day? Blood Press Monit 2008;13:145-147

Wizner B, Dechering DG, Thijs L, Atkins N, Fagard R, O’Brien E, de Leeuw PW, Parati G, Palatini P, Clement D, Grodzicki T, Kario T, Staessen JA. Short-term and long-term repeatability of the morning blood pressure in older patients with isolated systolic hypertension. J Hypertens 2008;26:1328-1335

O’Brien E. Dipping comes of age.The importance of nocturnal blood pressure. Hypertension 2009;53:446-447