Correction to: Journal of Human Hypertension (2013) xx, xxx–xxx; doi:10.1038/jhh.2013.35; published online 16 May 2013

The names of the first three authors of this paper were incorrectly given as: V C Júnior, F Danni Fuchs and L Moreira Beltrami. This has now been corrected and the amended article appears in this issue. The HTML and online versions have also been amended. The authors would like to apologise for their error.