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Objective:Central blood pressure (BP) is suggested to be more closely correlated to target organ damage and cardiovascular events than brachial BP.Outcome-based thresholds for the diagnosis of central hypertension has been recently proposed.However, little is known about central hypertension.In an untreated patient cohort, we therefore investigated the prevalence of central hypertension and its association with target organ damage.