Racial Differences in Diurnal Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Patterns
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Racial differences in diurnal blood pressure and heart rate patterns: results from the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) trial.
BACKGROUND Several studies have suggested that blacks, on average, have a blunted decline in nocturnal blood pressure (BP) as compared with nonblacks. It is unknown whether differences in traditional determinants of BP, specifically diet and obesity, account for observed differences in diurnal patterns. METHODS We conducted an analysis of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) tri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.168.9.996