Nighttime blood pressure dipping: the role of the sympathetic nervous system
Open Access
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Hypertension
- Vol. 15 (2), 111-118
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0895-7061(01)02251-8
Abstract
There is a marked diurnal variation in blood pressure (BP), with BP dipping to its lowest levels during nighttime sleep. A day–night dip in systolicKeywords
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