People who experience high blood pressure while sleeping are more likely to experience future cardiovascular disease especially heart failure, even when their daytime blood pressure is within normal ranges, according to new research.
The research was published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation.
Health care professionals typically use in-office and daytime blood pressure measurements to determine a patient’s hypertension medication needs and dosages. However, many patients may have undetected nocturnal hypertension — high blood pressure while sleeping.
“Nighttime blood pressure is increasingly being recognized as a predictor of cardiovascular risk,” said Kazuomi Kario, M.D., Ph.D., lead author of the study and a professor of cardiovascular medicine at Jichi Medical University in Tochigi, Japan. “This study provides much more…
