Non-dipping morning blood pressure and isolated systolic hypertension in elderly.

Objective: Morning hypertension is currently the blind spot in the clinical practice of hypertension, home 24-hour blood pressure measurement has been recommended in patients with a high clinic blood pressure and patients with target organ damage.

Aim: To assess whether an increased early morning blood pressure surge, established via a single 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, in treated elderly hypertensive's is related to more prominent target organ damage.

Material And Methods: 310 treated hypertensive patients randomly attended the out-patient clinic of our hypertension centre.