The risk of target organ damage is compared among patients with masked hypertension and sustained hypertension through a systematic review and meta-analysis of PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library of relevant case-control studies.
‘Patients with masked hypertension may have almost the same degree of target organ damage as sustained hypertension.’
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Articles on MH and SH were selected according to the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. The primary end point was target organ damage in the heart. The secondary end points were target organ damage in the kidneys and blood vessels.Read More..
Seventeen studies that met the screening criteria were included in the meta-analysis. Compared with the SH group, in the MH group carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and E/A ratio were significantly greater and the prevalence of left ventricular remodeling and the pulse wave velocity were significantly lower.
Other indicators in the heart, kidneys, and blood vessels were not statistically different between the two groups. IMT: P=0.01, E/A ratio: P=0.01, prevalence of left ventricular remodeling: P=0.02, pulse wave velocity: P=0.01.
The study shows that MH may have almost the same degree of target organ damage as SH, so clinicians may need to consider target organ damage.
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