Smoking habit is not related with hypertension mediated organ damage in young patients with first diagnosed and never treated essential hypertension

In young people with first diagnosed arterial hypertension, HMOD is independently related to BP burden, irrespective of smoking habit. As HMOD may regress with successful antihypertensive treatment, there is still time for those young patients to treat hypertension disease and hyperlipidemia and quit smoking, in order to reduce future CV risk.