Nondipping Status Does Not Attenuate the Conjugated Estrogen-Induced Improvement in Aortic Stiffness in Postmenopausal Women with Untreated Hypertension

A blunted nocturnal BP fall does not attenuate the estrogen-induced favorable modifications of large artery elastic properties in hypertensive postmenopausal women. Whether these findings suggest that hypertensive women with ERT-induced attenuation of PWV represent a specific clinical subgroup of patients with possible ERT-associated cardiovascular benefit remains to be determined by properly randomized trials.