OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between metabolic syndrome (MS) and 24-hour blood pressure parameters as a measure of cardiovascular risk (CVR). SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 136 hypertensive subjects, of both sexes, aged between 29 and 83 years were studied. CVR was defined as having at least three of the following conditions: 1) systolic/diastolic blood pressure (BP) ? 140/90 mmHg, absence/atennuation of nighttime fall in BP during sleep, pulse pressure (PP) ? 53 mmHg; 2) 24-h PP > 53 mmHg, 3) nighttime PP […]