24 hour blood pressure monitoring and early echocardiographic findings

Abstract

Introduction: Arterial hypertension is one of the main factor associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality with increa-sing prevalence, so it is considered as a key factor to treat to decrease cardiovascular disease. There is no data in Colombia that correlates echocardiographic parameters with meassures of blood pressure obtained by a 24 h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Objective: To evaluate possible relations between 24 hour blood pressure monitoring and relative wall thickness, left atrial volume index, left ventricular ejection fraction and ventricular mass index. Materials and methods: A cross sectional, observational, descriptive trial in Colombian patients between june 2018 to dicember 2019 with echocardiographic and 24 h blood pressure monitoring data from the cardiology deparment of the Hospital de San José. Results: 70 patients were included. a possible relation was found between 24 h systolic blood pressure monitoring and 24 h diastolic pressure monitoring with left atrial volume index (p = 0.004) and relative wall thickness (p = 0.032) respectively. Conclusion: A possible association was found between 24 h systolic blood pressure monitoring and 24 h diastolic blood pressure monitoring with left atrial volume index and relative wall thickness respectively. It is necessary to conduct more studies to confirm this finding.