Bedtime Hypertension Treatment Increases Ambulatory Blood Pressure Control and Reduces Cardiovascular Risk in Resistant Hypertension To the Editor: A cross-sectional 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring study1 reported 37.5% incidence of isolated office resistant hypertension (RH), there defined as clinic BP 140/90 mm Hg plus 24-hour BP mean 130/80 mm Hg, and it was even higher (44...

Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) correlates more significantly with hypertension-associated cardiovascular mortality and morbidity than BP obtained in the doctor's office. Assessing ambulatory BP, either through 24-h monitoring or through protocolized self-measurement at home, is essential in diagnosing and monitoring patients with hypertension. Several ambulatory BP-derived indicators are relate...

To investigate the value of home blood pressure (BP) measurements, the BP was recorded daily by the patient at home and compared with recordings in the physician's office and with a 24-hour BP recording taken with a noninvasive ambulatory BP recorder in a group of 93 patients with mild untreated hypertension. Office BPs (mean 148/94 mm Hg) were higher than either home (138/89 mm Hg) or average ...

In the past few years noninvasive automatic blood pressure (BP) recorders have been increasingly used to estimate patients' 24-hour BP more accurately than by one or few isolated measurements. However, these recorders only allow BP to be intermittently measured at intervals between 5 to 30 minutes, which means that the number of values collected over 24 hours (10 to 100) remains a tiny fraction...

abstract a 2.5 year old girl is presented with both hands constriction bands leading to distal amputations and the rare deformity of shoulder duplication in the right side accompanying constriction skin marking over the affected shoulder. the cephalomedial scapula articulated with the clavicle and the caudolateral scapula articulated with humeral head. the most important physical finding which ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Elevations in blood pressure (BP) and blood glucose are common during stroke and may represent a stress response secondary to the acute neurological deficit. If so, they should settle more completely in recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rtPA)-treated patients in association with improved neurological status. METHODS We performed a controlled comparison of 2...

Background The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between baseline blood pressure (BP) and the magnitude of BP reduction in patients with essential hypertension treated with nifedipine gastrointestinal therapeutic system (NGTS). Methods and patients One hundred and thirty-eight patients with essential hypertension were enrolled in this prospective, single-arm, open-lab...

INTRODUCTION Twenty four-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a clinically validated procedure in evaluation of blood pressure (BP). We hypothesised that the discomfort during cuff inflation would increase the heart rate (HR) measured with 24-h ambulatory BP monitoring compared to a following HR measurement with a 24-h Holter monitor. METHODS The study population (n = 56) were recruit...