24-hours blood pressure
After the post-intervention testing (~17:00), participants underwent an ambulatory BP monitoring for 24-h. Measurements were taken every 15 min for 24 h (this same frequency of measurements were kept during sleep) using an oscillometric device (CardioMapa, CARDIOS, São Paulo, Brazil). Participants were instructed to complete a diary with time of sleeping, waking, medication use and daytime activities. On the completion of the test, data was downloaded to an offline PC using the software Dyna-MAPA (CARDIOS, Sao Paulo, Brazil), that calculated the mean of SBP, DBP and HR for the entire 24 h, and for the asleep and awake periods as reported by the patients in the diary. Additionally, SBP and DBP nocturnal fall (%) was calculated by the difference between asleep SBP/DBP and awake SBP/DBP, divided by awake SBP/DBP and multiplied by 100. Only exams with more than 80% of measurements were considered valid for analysis [