Whole-day blood pressure.

Clinical Conference Whole-Day Blood Pressure Principal Discussant

Case Presentation Patient 1 A 23-year-old woman was evaluated for hypertension in 1980. Six years previously an autonomous adenoma had been removed during a parathyroid exploration. At operation, her blood pressure ranged between 120/80 and 130/90 mm Hg. During a routine gynecological examination one year before the evaluation for hypertension, her blood pressure was recorded as 145/90 mm Hg. S...

Day-to-day blood pressure variability and dementia

Blood pressure and expression of microRNAs in whole blood

BACKGROUND Blood pressure (BP) is a complex, multifactorial clinical outcome driven by genetic susceptibility, behavioral choices, and environmental factors. Many molecular mechanisms have been proposed for the pathophysiology of high BP even as its prevalence continues to grow worldwide, increasing morbidity and marking it as a major public health concern. To address this, we evaluated miRNA p...

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring: the Need of 7-day Record.

The need for systematic around-the-clock self-measurements of blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR), or preferably for automatic monitoring as the need arises and can be met by inexpensive tools, is illustrated in two case reports. Miniaturized unobtrusive, as yet unavailable instrumentation for the automatic measurement of BP and HR should be a high priority for both government and industry....

Day-to-Day Blood Pressure Variability and Risk of Dementia in a General Japanese Elderly Population

BACKGROUND Several observational studies have reported that higher visit-to-visit blood pressure variability is a risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia. However, no studies have investigated the association of day-to-day blood pressure variability assessed by home blood pressure measurement with the development of dementia. METHODS A total of 1674 community-dwelling Japanese elder...