BJGP Research Conference: 31 March 2023 | RCGP, London
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Night-time blood pressure and hypertension
Typically blood pressure drops at night, but a marked proportion of the UK population have a rise in night-time blood pressure. These patients, known as 'reverse dippers', are more likely to have undiagnosed hypertension, because monitoring in the UK takes place in the daytime. Reverse dippers are found to have poorer cardiovascular outcomes, and lower mortality; however, NICE Guidelines presently recommend GPs diagnose hypertension based on day-time blood pressure measurement only, which is not capable of detecting high blood pressure in these patients.
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BJGP Research Conference is a one-day focused event with lots of new information for your CPD, and opportunities for networking with other primary care academics and clinicians. Workshops, plenaries, and parallel sessions provide learning opportunities valuable to researchers at all stages of their career. By ‘pulling back the curtain’ on the publishing process, the BJGP reveals how medical journals and academic publishing work, providing insight to new and established authors. Book and see early-bird discounts.
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