Background A blood pressure surge during the early morning may help to precipitate
cardiovascular events. The objective of this study was thus to assess the blood pressure
behaviour profile of early morning blood pressure in patients receiving antihypertensive
treatment. Design The ACAMPA study is a multi-center, open, prospective, observational
study that was carried out by 24 investigators in Spain. Methods Two hundred and ninety
patients with essential hypertension who had been receiving the same antihypertensive …