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Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1619.

Error in Notation. In the article titled "Association of Impaired Diurnal Blood Pressure Variation With a Subsequent Decline in Glomerular Filtration Rate," by Davidson et al published in the April 24th issue of the ARCHIVES (2006;166:846-852) the notation for nondipping night-day systolic blood pressure (SBP>.90) ratio was erroneously noted as a day-night ratio throughout the text. This notation should have been inverted. Therefore, on page 846, left-hand column, "Methods" subsection of the "Abstract," the second and third sentences should have read as follows: "Mean day and night SBPs were compared (nighttime SBP–daytime SBP ratio). We defined nondipping as a nighttime SBP–daytime SBP ratio higher than 0.90." On page 847, left-hand column, "Ambulatory BP Recordings" subsection of the "Methods" section, the last sentence should have read as follows: "We prospectively defined nondipping as a nighttime SBP–daytime SBP ratio higher than 0.90.¹" Also on page 847, right-hand column, "Ambulatory BP" subsection of the "Results" section, the first sentence should have read as follows: "Three hundred twenty-two patients met the inclusion criteria, 137 dippers (mean ± SD nighttime SBP–daytime SBP ratio, 0.85 ± 0.04) and 185 nondippers (mean ± SD nighttime SBP–daytime SBP ratio, 0.97 ± 0.06)." On page 849, the second sentence in the asterisk table note to Table 1 should have read as follows: "Propensity score includes all variables in the table except for those variables reflecting diurnal hemodynamic variation (ie, mean daytime systolic BP, mean nighttime systolic BP, and nighttime systolic BP–daytime systolic BP ratio, and nocturnal drop in heart rate), those variables reflecting a decline in renal function, and those variables with fewer than 50 data points."

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