OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to determine the influence of pre-operative systolic blood pressure and systolic blood pressure 1 and 5 years after venous coronary bypass surgery on subsequent cardiac and non-cardiac mortality. DESIGN A prospective 15 years follow-up study. PATIENTS A series of 446 consecutive coronary bypass surgery patients, operated on between April 1976 and A...

276 isolated systolic hypertension (isH) in young people, defined on the basis of brachial blood pressure (Bp) as a systolic Bp (sBp) of at least 140 mm Hg with a diastolic Bp (DBp) of <90 mm Hg, is not an unusual condition and is increasing in prevalence. to date, this concept has been confronted with challenges in the mechanisms, clinical relevance, and consequences. parameters other than bra...

The "Tehran Blood Pressure Study" (TBPS) is an observational cross-sectional study performed on men and women aged 15 years or more during the years 1990-1991. The study has been designed and performed by the Tehran University of Medical Sciences' Cardiovascular Research Center, with the primary objective of determining the prevalence and distribution of high blood pressure in Tehrani adult...

The beat-to-beat blood pressure (BP) monitoring parameters, such as average beat-to-beat BP, BP variability (BPV), could have an influence on the vascular elasticity. This study hypothesized that the elevated beat-to-beat BPV could evoke the reduction of the vascular elasticity independent of BP levels. We measured the beat-to-beat BP recordings and total arterial compliance (TAC), which was us...

This study assessed the blood pressure (BP) of normotensive subjects and subjects with pharmacologically controlled hypertension after sodium bicarbonate jet prophylaxis. Forty subjects were divided into 2 groups: a normotensive control group (n = 20) and a hypertensive group (n = 20). Blood pressure measurements were conducted at 4 timepoints: prior to the dental prophylaxis (T0), immediately ...

We evaluated the influence of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), based on reported pre-pregnancy weight and height, on blood pressure (BP) levels during pregnancy by using information from a prospective cohort of 1733 women recruited before 20 weeks' gestation. Maternal antenatal BP values were abstracted from medical records, and we evaluated the mean BP differences according to BMI...

There is an urgent need to treat individuals with high blood pressure (BP) with effective dietary strategies. Previous studies suggest a small, but significant decrease in BP after lactotripeptides (LTP) ingestion, although the data are inconsistent. The study aim was to perform a comprehensive meta-analysis of data from all relevant randomised controlled trials (RCT). Medline, Cochrane library...

OBJECTIVES Blood pressure (BP) is poorly controlled in many countries. Poor compliance was suggested as the main cause for poor BP control. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between compliance and the control of both casual blood pressure (BP) and 24-hr ambulatory BP in a Japanese elderly population. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional survey. Casual BP and 24-hr am...

The large body of literature on the association between blood pressure (BP) and cognitive functioning has yielded mixed results, possibly due to the presence of non-linear effects across age, or because BP affects specific brain areas differently, impacting more on some cognitive skills than on others. If a robust association was detected among BP and specific cognitive tasks, the causal nature...