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Hypertension. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 August 01. Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2016 August ; 68(2): 501–510. doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.116.07553.

Masked Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease Events in a Prospective Cohort of African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study John N. Booth III, MSa, Keith M. Diaz, PhDb, Samantha Seals, PhDc, Mario Sims, PhDc, Joseph Ravenell, MDd, Paul Muntner, PhDa, and Daichi Shimbo, MDb

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aUniversity

of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

bColumbia

University Medical Center, New York, New York

cUniversity

of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi

dNew

York University School of Medicine, New York, New York

Abstract Masked hypertension, defined as non-elevated clinic blood pressure (BP) with elevated out-ofclinic BP, has been associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Europeans and Asians. Few data are available on masked hypertension and CVD and mortality risk among African Americans (AAs).

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We analyzed data from the Jackson Heart Study, a prospective cohort study of AAs. Analyses included participants with clinic-measured systolic/diastolic BP (SBP/DBP)