[Arterial mean pressure and pulse pressure in young hypertensive patients].

Background And Objective: Evidence shows that pulse pressure (PP) is very useful when assessing the hypertensive patient and this has led to a lower use of mean arterial pressure (MAP). We intended to demonstrate that MAP should be better than PP in young hypertensive patients.

Subjects And Method: Cross-sectional study in 70 white males with ages among 16-40 years, distributed in two groups of 35 individuals labelled as control group or hypertensive patients, who were assessed by echocardiography.