Open AccessSex differences in masked hypertension
Author(s) -
Daniel N. Pugliese,
John N. Booth,
Luqin Deng,
D. Edmund Anstey,
Natalie A. Bello,
Byron C. Jaeger,
James M. Shikany,
Donald M. LloydJones,
Cora E. Lewis,
Joseph Schwartz,
Paul Muntner,
Daichi Shimbo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.249
H-Index - 172
eISSN - 1473-5598
pISSN - 0263-6352
DOI - 10.1097/hjh.0000000000002175
Subject(s) - medicine , masked hypertension , blood pressure , ambulatory blood pressure
To evaluate the association of sex with masked hypertension, defined by out-of-clinic hypertension based on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) among adults without hypertension based on blood pressure (BP) measured in the clinic, after adjusting for potential confounders.