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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Hypertension Volume 2012, Article ID 426803, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/426803 Research Article Depressive Symptoms and 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans: The SABPA Study 1 2, 3 ´ 2, 3 4 Mark Hamer, Nancy Frasure-Smith, Franc¸ois Lesperance, Brian H. Harvey, 5 ´ 5 Nico T. Malan, and Leone Malan 1 Psychobiology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK 2 Department of Psychiatry and School of Nursing, McGill University CHUM Research Center, QC, Canada 3 Montreal Heart Institute Research Center, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7 4 Unit for Drug Research and Development, Division of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa 5 Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), School for Physiology, Nutrition, and Consumer Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa Correspondence should be addressed to Mark Hamer, m.hamer@ucl.ac.uk Received 2 June 2011; Revised 3 August 2011; Accepted 17 August 2011 Academic Editor: Tavis S. Campbell Copyright © 2012 Mark Hamer et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Disturbances in circadian rhythm might play a central role in the neurobiology of depression. We examined the association