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for a better assessment. Again, for the assessment of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, a comparison between P-wave dispersion and TDI parameters would be more accurate. Daytime ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) is usually higher than nighttime ABP, and the reverse diurnal pattern is independently associated with a higher incidence of cardiovascular events and mortality (4). Reverse-dippers still had approximately twice the risk for stroke versus dippers or non-dippers. Reverse-dippers also had twice as many total cardiovascular events (cardiac and stroke events) as the other dipping groups (5). On the other hand, as you evaluate dipper and non-dipper patient groups, it would be better to include reverse-dipper patients in the study, as this subgroup has the worst prognosis in hypertension patients.