Hypertension

Office measurement vs. ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: associations with mortality in patients with or without diabetes

Eur Heart JPublished Registry-based cohort study

Authors' conclusion

Diabetes increased the risk for all-cause death, CV, and non-CV death at every level of office and ambulatory BP. Masked and sustained hypertension confer to the highest risk, while white-coat hypertension appears grossly neutral without interaction of relative risk between diabetes and no diabetes.

Study context

Population
Patients in the Spanish ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) Registry, 223 primary care centres in Spain
Participants
59,124 patients223 primary care centres
Exposure
Diabetes vs no diabetes across office and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) levels and hypertension phenotypes
  • Diabetesn = 11,391
Outcome
CV death and all-cause death by office, 24-h, daytime and nighttime ambulatory BP and by hypertension phenotype
Methodological detailsmulticentre, adjusted Cox regression
  • Multicentre
  • Adjusted Cox regression

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

White-coat hypertension vs NormotensionHazard ratio (95% CI)
CV death
0.86(0.72–1.03)
All-cause death, no diabetes
0.89(0.81–0.98)
Relative association of BP to cardiovascular (CV) death risk similar in diabetes vs no diabetes (mean, daytime, nighttime interaction P)
P = 0.80; P = .97; P = .32
Phenotype × diabetes interaction, CV death
P = 0.26
Phenotype × diabetes interaction, all-cause death
P = 0.043
Phenotype × diabetes interaction, non-CV death
P = 0.053

Observational data: associations, not effects.

Original publication

Office measurement vs. ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: associations with mortality in patients with or without diabetes. Eur Heart J. Published 7 June 2024. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehae337

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