Yan Li|Ji?Guang Wang|Pingjin Gao|Hailin Guo|Tim S. Nawrot|Guliang Wang|Yuesheng Qian|Jan A. Staessen|Dingliang Zhu
Are published characteristics of the ambulatory blood pressure generalizable to rural Chinese? The JingNing population study
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China|Shanghai Institute of Hypertension|Ruijin Hospital
investigated ambulatory blood pressure bp rural chinese compared characteristics reported populationbased studieswe enrolled inhabitants six villages jingning county china recorded ambulatory bp using 90207 spacelabs monitors trained physicians measured conventional bp participants homes hypertension defined conventional bp 140 90 mmhg condition requiring intake antihypertensive drugs using medline searched populationbased studies ambulatory bp monitoringthe 356 participants 1286 years included 192 539 women 117 329 hypertensive patients participants systolicdiastolic bp averaged 12980 mmhg home ambulatory bp means 12177 mmhg 24 h 12681 mmhg daytime 0800 1800 h 11270 mmhg nighttime 2200 0400 h awake asleep bps averaged 12682 11270 mmhg respectively using previously published definitions daytime 1000 2000 h nighttime midnight 0600 h instead given inflated bp differences awake asleep bps 0402 1210 mmhg 030 1416 mmhg respectively compared daytime values conventional bp 2731 mmhg lower normotensive individuals 14913 mmhg higher hypertensive patients normotensive individuals wholeday nighttime diastolic bps 1 4 mmhg 3 7 mmhg higher five population studies caucasians japanese whereas nighttime bp participants 95 mmhg lower chinese living taiwanwe demonstrated significant differences characteristics ambulatory blood pressure across asian caucasian populations extent different activity patterns genetic environmental factors explain contextdependency remains clarified