Abstract
Women are underrepresented in groups of patients seeking hypertension care in India. The present paper reports trends in office and ambulatory blood pressure measurement (OBPM, ABPM) and 24-h heart rate (HR) with sex in 14,977 subjects untreated for hypertension (aged 47.3 ± 13.9 years, males 69.4%) visiting primary care physicians. Results showed that, for systolic blood pressure (SBP), females had lower daytime ABPM (131 ± 16 vs. 133 ± 14 mm Hg, P
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Kaul, U., Bhagwat, A., Omboni, S., Pancholia, A. K., Hardas, S., Bardoloi, N., … Verberk, W. J. (2020). Blood pressure and heart rate related to sex in untreated subjects: the India ABPM study. Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 22(7), 1154–1162. https://doi.org/10.1111/jch.13894
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