Estudo clínico, nutricional e metabólico de portadores de hipertensão do avental branco e hipertensão mascarada, e avaliação não invasiva da função vascular.

Abstract

Arterial hypertension is no more considered as a simple increase in blood pressure because it includes other factors which contribute to increased cardiovascular risk, thus incorporating the concept of syndrome. In clinical practice, even today, the most used measurement of blood pressure (BP) is the casually by the indirect method, but much has been asked about the value of these measuresments. It is believed that a significant number of patients presents a very different value of PA when examined by the doctor in his office and outside it by other means. Thus, other methods for assessment of blood pressure have been used as the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM). These methods are helping to classify patients in normotensive, hypertensive, white-coat hypertensive) (WCH) and masked hypertensive (MH). The masked hypertension and white coat are phenomena that are between normotension and hypertension and have risk of developing cardiovascular disease in the future. Articles submitted are intended to review and discuss the main studies about this subject, and describe the results obtained after monitoring the nutritional and metabolic profile of individuals with masked hypertension and white coat and comparative analysis with Augmentation Index, so to contribute to a better understanding of nutritional and metabolic profile and detection of subgroups of patients with probability of cardiovascular events.