P808Characteristics of patients with reproducible masked hypertension

Abstract Background Masked hypertension (MH) is associated with cardiovascular complications and poor prognosis. Characteristics of untreated patients with reproducible MH are studied insufficiently. Purpose The aim of our study was to assess characteristics of ambulatory patients with reproducible MH in comparison to patients with non-reproducible MH in two visits. Methods The patients from the ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) database (>2000 patients) were selected according to the following criteria: absence of any antihypertensive treatment (AHT), availability of clinical BP (CBP) and ABPM records at two visits with the 6 months interval, CBP