[Comparison of 24-hour blood pressure measurement with ergometry in patients with hypertension].

24-h-Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and bicycle ergometry were compared in 112 patients with untreated mild to moderate essential hypertension. Patients with high blood-pressure values above 220 mmHg during ergometry showed a significantly higher number of blood-pressure peaks above 180 mmHg. There was no significant correlation between the level of the blood-pressure rise during ergometry and the mean values of blood pressure during the 24-h period neither in the night- or the daytime period, nor of the peak values of the 24-h profile.

[Absence of nocturnal decrease in blood pressure in 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: an indication of secondary hypertension].

Non invasive 24 hours ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed in 81 patients with secondary hypertension (renoparenchymatous nephropathy n = 15, diabetic nephropathy n = 10, Conn's disease n = 4, renal artery stenosis n = 15, pheochromocytoma n = 2, hemodialysis patients n = 15 and patients after kidney transplantation n = 20). The results were compared to 201 patients with essential hypertension. The results showed that 98.