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Narrative review: Isolated nocturnal hypertension - A frosted glass
J Minetto1, G Cerri1, W Espeche1
1Interzonal General Agudos San Martin Hospital, La Plata, Argentina; National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
The following article is a narrative review on isolated nocturnal hypertension, conducted up to July 2024, with a search for primary and secondary articles in MEDLINE, LILACS, and gray literature. This review highlights aspects related to its current definition, epidemiology, and associated populations and risk factors, as well as specifics regarding its diagnosis, prognostic importance for target organ damage and cardiovascular events/mortality, and potential treatments. This condition has particular aspects and, although it is not very common in the general population, it reaches high prevalence in some at-risk populations. To date, there is much debate and many issues to investigate regarding diagnostic aspects, as well as its heterogeneity and clinical significance, which indicate different prognoses. Therapeutic aspects are even more a matter of debate, necessitating future research.
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