Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
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Ahmed Shawky Shereef

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• Research Article
  Non-Dipping Phenomenon; is it Reversible in Diabetic Hypertensive Cases?
  Author(s): Haitham Aly Amer, Mohammad Mostafa Al Awadi, Ahmed Shawky Shereef and Mohammad Gouda Mohammad Haitham Aly Amer, Mohammad Mostafa Al Awadi, Ahmed Shawky Shereef and Mohammad Gouda Mohammad
  
  Objectives: To detect reversibility of non-dipping phenomenon in diabetic hypertensive patients. Materials and methods: This study enrolled 60 patients who were diabetic with uncontrolled hypertension with non-dipper pattern proved from the first ABPM. Then after office BP control, we classified the cases according to the second ABPM data regarding reversibility of non-dipping status into two groups: Group (I): Irreversible cases: included 56 patients, still having non-dipping pattern. Group (II): Reversible cases: only four cases who returned back into dipper status. Results: Mean age was 54.36 ± 5.62 years; and 73% of the study population was male. Also, 70 of the patients had LVH. There was no significant difference between both groups concerning demographic data p value was more than .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9880.1000565

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