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Is siesta masking masked hypertension?

To the Editor: Banegas et al,1 for the Spanish Society of Hypertension Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Registry Investigators, have examined the sensitivity and specificity of office blood pressure measurements in assessing control of hypertension in treated patients. The “gold standard” reference was the daytime component of a 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. In this manner, ...

Is masked hypertension related to diabetes mellitus?

To the Editor: We recently read with interest the article by Franklin et al 1 concerning the prevalence of masked hypertension (MH) in diabetes mellitus. Analyzing data from the IDACO (The International Database of Ambulatory Blood Pressure in relation to Cardiovascular Outcome) project, the authors revealed that 42.5% of the antihyper-tensive-treated diabetics had MH (normal clinic blood press...

Is thyroid function associated with masked hypertension?

The effect of a masked stimulus on the response to the masking stimulus.

Four experiments are reported in which the subjects had to respond to a target that masked a preceding prime via metacontrast masking. In one part of Experiment 1, the subjects discriminated the target's shape (square or diamond) by a motor-choice reaction, and in another part they had to respond with a simple reaction. The prime was neutral (circular) with respect to the target's shape. The da...

Homocysteine and masked hypertension

1. Hong H, Wang MS, Liu Q, Shi JC, Ren HM, Xu ZM. Angiographically evident atherosclerotic stenosis associated with myocardial bridging and risk factors for the artery stenosis located proximally to myocardial bridging. Anadolu Kardiyol Derg 2014; 14: 40-7. 2. Duygu H, Zoghi M, Nalbantgil S, Kırılmaz B, Türk U, Özerkan F, et al. Myocardial bridge: a bridge to atherosclerosis. Anadolu Kardiyol D...