Markers in Hypertension: Insights for an Enhanced Blood Pressure Management

Insights in Blood Pressure

Citation: Bernstein LH. Insights in Blood Pressure. Insights Blood Press 2015, 1:1. A review of the physiology of blood pressure and the pathogenesis of hypertension (or of hypotension) can be a very large undertaking, considering the vast literature only in the last half century. The main considerations to be taken into account are: disease comorbidities, the heart, kidney and arterial vascula...

Home recording of blood pressure in the management of hypertension.

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in the Management of Hypertension

Ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) is being used increasingly in clinical practice. In recognition of this the British Hypertension Society has published recommendations for the use and interpretation of ABPM in clinical practice, and the European Society of Hypertension has published recommendations on blood pressure measuring devices, including devices for ABPM. Importantly, the tec...

Genes for blood pressure: an opportunity to understand hypertension.

Hypertension (HTN) is quantitatively the major cardiovascular risk factor and responsible for ∼50% of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Blood pressure (BP) is also a classical complex genetic trait with heritability estimates of 30-50%. Although much is known about BP regulation, the intrinsic origin of essential HTN remains obscure although many environmental factors are known. Analyses ...

Chronology of blood pressure changes in renal hypertension induced by solid plexiglass clips in the rat

The objective of this study was to determine the chronology of changes in blood pressure in renalhypertension induced by solid plexiglass clips in rats. Saw blades with the thickness of 0.21-0.22 mm wereused to make clips sized 4 × 2 × 2 mm from a piece of 2-mm thick plexiglass. Rats were subjected to shamoperation or left renal arterial clipping, and 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks later blood pressure, a...