Reproducibility of Nocturnal Blood Pressure Reduction Rate and the Prevalence of “Non‐Dippers” Using 48‐Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Patients with Essential Hypertension

Nondipping Blood Pressure Patterns among Individuals with Essential Hypertension: A Review of the Literature

“…In particular, researchers found the probability of displaying a nondipping BP pattern was 0.93 times greater from 20 years to 30 years of age, 2.8 times greater from 30 years to 60 years of age and 5.7 times greater from 60 years to 80 years of age. The association of increased age and progressive attenuation of nocturnal BP dipping among treated and untreated essential hypertensive individuals as well as among persons without hypertension has been corroborated in several cross-sectional studies examining dipping status [11,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. However, researchers of other cross-sectional studies have not observed differences in age and dipping status among individuals with or without essential hypertension [1,8,9,10,13,14,[17][18][19][20][21][22]25,27,28,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57]…”