Clinical features of arterial hypertension in patients with mild and moderate COVID-19

Objective: to clarify the clinical and diagnostic features of arterial hypertension in patients with mild and moderate forms of COVID-19, taking into account the elapsed time. Material and methods. We examined 116 patients aged 44-60 years who were admitted to the hospital with uncontrolled stage 2 arterial hypertension, 96 of them had mild and moderate COVID-19. The patients were divided into two groups: the first group up to 12 weeks after suffering COVID-19 and the second group after 12 weeks. The examination included echocardiography and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring. Results. In post-COVID-19 patients, the ratio of daytime to nighttime systolic BP was statistically significantly lower than in disease-free patients (p