Carlo Porcellati

TL;DR: It is suggested that ambulatory blood pressures stratifies cardiovascular risk in essential hypertension independent of clinic blood pressure and other traditional risk markers including echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of circadian blood pressure changes on the echocardiographic parameters of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy were investigated in 235 consecutive subjects (137 unselected untreated patients with essential hypertension and 98 healthy normotensive subjects) who underwent 24-hour noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and cross-sectional and M-mode echology.

TL;DR: In essential hypertension, a reduction in LV mass during treatment is a favorable prognostic marker that predicts a lesser risk for subsequent cardiovascular morbid events.

TL;DR: This data indicates that ambulatory blood pressure correlates more closely than clinic BP with the organ damage of hypertension and whether ABP predicts development or regression of hypertension-related morbidity and mortality is still under investigation.

TL;DR: In untreated subjects with essential hypertension, raised uric acid is a powerful risk marker for subsequent cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality.