Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9880
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2155-9880
+44 1300 500008
Haitham Aly Aly Amer
Matarya Teaching Hospital,
Cairo, 11752
Egypt
Research Article
Non-Dipping Phenomenon; is it Reversible in Diabetic Hypertensive Cases?
Author(s): Haitham Aly Aly Amer, Mohammad Mostafa Al Awadi, Ahmed Shawky Shereef and Mohammad Gouda MohammadHaitham Aly Aly Amer, Mohammad Mostafa Al Awadi, Ahmed Shawky Shereef and Mohammad Gouda Mohammad
Objectives: To detect reversibility of non-dipping phenomenon in diabetic hypertensive patients.
Materials and methods: This study enrolled 60 patients who were diabetic with uncontrolled hypertension with non-dipper pattern proved from the first ABPM. Then after office BP control, we classified the cases according to the second ABPM data regarding reversibility of non-dipping status into two groups:
Group (I): Irreversible cases: included 56 patients, still having non-dipping pattern.
Group (II): Reversible cases: only four cases who returned back into dipper status.
Results: Mean age was 54.36 ± 5.62 years; and 73% of the study population was male. Also, 70 of the patients had LVH. There was no significant difference between both groups concerning demographic data p value was more than .. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-9880.1000565