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Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Family History of Hypertension in Healthy Men and Women

Author(s) -

Irwin Goldstein,

Douglas Y. Shapiro,

Dawn M. Guthrie

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2005.09.025

Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , ambulatory blood pressure , ambulatory , family history , offspring , diastole , prehypertension , endocrinology , pediatrics , pregnancy , biology , genetics

Family history of hypertension is a primary predictor of high blood pressure (BP). This study attempted to determine whether there is a gradual increase in BP between individuals with two hypertensive parents, one hypertensive parent, and normotensive parents and whether this increase is apparent with both ambulatory and casual BP assessments in men as well as in women.

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