Essential hypertension (EH) represents a major public health problem having an increased incidence of cardiovascular events, mainly stroke and coronary heart disease. Micro-and macrovascular dysfunction contributes to the development of clinically detectable cardiovascular complications in hypertension. Despite a growing body of evidence in the field, the role of vascular dysfunction in the pathophysiology of EH remains under investigation.Recognition of different hypertension phenotypes is currently considered important in the diagnosis and management of hypertension.1 Several reports point toward a prominent vascular dysfunction in patients with masked hypertension (MH) and white-coat hypertension (WCH) compared to normotensive individuals (NT). (r = .156, P = .006), aortic pulse pressure (r = .153, P = .007) and marginally with carotidfemoral pulse wave velocity (r = .110, P = .051), as well as with diastolic office BP. In the multivariate model, aortic AIx75 and age were the only statistically significant predictors of ADMA. This is the largest study to document an independent association between ADMA and aortic AIx75 but not with other indices of arterial stiffness.