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Figure 6

From: Chronotherapy with conventional blood pressure medications improves management of hypertension and reduces cardiovascular and stroke risks

Figure 6

Kaplan–Meier survival curves for total cardiovascular disease (CVD) events as a function of time of day (with respect to circadian rhythms) of BP-lowering treatment, that is, for hypertensive patients ingesting either all prescribed BP-lowering medications upon awakening (continuous line) or full daily dose of ≥1 of them at bedtime (dashed line), in the general hypertension population of the (a) MAPEC (Monitorización Ambulatoria para Predicción de Eventos Cardiovasculares) study and those diagnosed upon recruitment with either (b) type 2 diabetes, (c) chronic kidney disease (CKD) or (d) resistant hypertension (RH) (updated from references 39, 43, 44, 45). A full color version of this figure is available at the Hypertension Research journal online.

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