Cristiana Valerio

TL;DR: Despite similar clinic and 48-h BP values, never-treated hypertensive patients with a persistent non-dipper pattern showed a significantly greater extent of cardiac structural alterations compared with subjects with a reproducible dipping pattern, but not those with a variable BP nocturnal profile.

TL;DR: The results from a representative sample of untreated middle-aged hypertensives show that: (i) the metabolic syndrome is highly prevalent in this setting and (ii) despite similar ambulatory blood pressure values, patients with metabolic syndrome have a more pronounced cardiac and extracardiac involvement than those without it.

TL;DR: This study suggests that LA enlargement is a common echocardiographic finding in selected essential hypertensive patients with different left ventricular geometric patterns and, in addition to LVH, overweight, high fasting glucose and metabolic syndrome are associated with LA dimensions.

TL;DR: It is shown that hypertensive patients with aortic root enlargement have more pronounced alterations in cardiac structure and geometry as well as in carotid artery morphology compared with those without the enlargement, which appears to be a useful marker of high cardiovascular risk related to TOD.

TL;DR: A very large fraction of untreated, recently diagnosed hypertensive patients have initial retinal microvascular abnormalities detectable by non-mydriatic retinography, and fundoscopic examination has a limited clinical value to detect widespread organ involvement in early phases of grade 1 and 2 hypertension.