Research Article
Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Normal and Abnormal 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
| 82-Cardiovascular outcomes in 61 patients | Frequency |
| Myocardial infarction | 6 (2.4%) | Acute coronary syndrome | 3(1.2%) | New diagnosis of angina pectoris | 4(1.6) | Sudden cardiac death | 0 | Cardiac arrhythmias | 34 (13.9%) | Acute left ventricular failure | 0 | Fatal or non-fatal cerebrovascular event | 15 (6.5%) | Peripheral vascular disease | 5 (2%) | Fatal or non-fatal abdominal aortic aneurysm | 1 (0.4%) | Renal failure (CKD ≥ stage 3) | 14 (5.7%) |
| Statistically significant associations (Fisher exact test) | | Cerebrovascular events and absent nocturnal dip ≤ 10% | | Cerebrovascular events high day time DBP | | Peripheral vascular disease and morning surge ≥ 20/15 mmHg | | Cardiac arrhythmias and high day time | | Cardiac arrhythmias and night time DBP | |
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