P-95: Classification of ambulatory blood pressure into grades with statistically different 5-year CV events rate

Modern hypertension guidelines indicate that office blood pressure(OBP) is insufficient to predict cardiovascular events in hypertensives and additional factors are necessary for accurate risk stratification in that group. Ambulatory blood pressure(ABP) has been shown to have stronger relation to CV risk than OBP. However, no practical use of ABP is possible without its appropriate classification into grades carrying significantly different CV risk. To develop practical classification of ABP for stratification of CV risk in hypertensive patients. Complete 5-year follow up data were obtained for 128 patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension, 79 men, 49 women aged between 18–60 years, who had undergone detailed clinical evaluation including 24-h ABPM as a apart of a larger study of prognostic efficacy of ABPM. The incidence of composite endpoint of MI, stroke and CV death was compared between 3 groups of patients according to combined tertiles of initial 24-h means of SBP and DBP (24-hSBP