BACKGROUND Over two decades of observations in the field in South East Asia and Hawai'i suggest that majority of the commercial dairy herds are of black hair coat. Hence a simple study to determine the accuracy of the observation was conducted with two large dairy herds in Hawaii in the mid-1990s. METHODS A retrospective study on longevity of Holstein cattle in the tropics was conducted using...

Hypertension in Japan To the Editor: Khattar and associates recently described the extent of target organ damage and the cardiovascular prognosis of white-coat hypertension in a middle-aged adult population.1 Pickering, who introduced the concept of “white coat hypertension” in clinical practice, provided editorial comments.2 The major conclusion of the study was that white-coat hypertension is...

Hypertension in Japan To the Editor: Khattar and associates recently described the extent of target organ damage and the cardiovascular prognosis of white-coat hypertension in a middle-aged adult population.1 Pickering, who introduced the concept of “white coat hypertension” in clinical practice, provided editorial comments.2 The major conclusion of the study was that white-coat hypertension is...

Five hundred and forty crossbred (Korean native black pig×Landrace) F2 were selected at a commercial pig farm and then divided into six different coat color groups: (A: Black, B: White, C: Red, D: White spot in black, E: Black spot in white, F: Black spot in red). Birth weight, 21st d weight, 140th d weight and carcass weight varied among the different coat color groups. D group (white spot in ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the relation between white coat hypertension and alterations of left ventricular structure and function. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Augsburg, Germany. SUBJECTS 1677 subjects, aged 25 to 74 years, who participated in an echocardiographic substudy of the monitoring of trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease Augsburg study during 1994-5. OUTCOME M...

Aim: To investigate the prevalence of chronic hypertension (CH), white coat (WCH), and masked (MHT) in women with suspected at <20 weeks gestation.

White-Coat and Masked Hypertension: Selective Elevation of Blood Pressure or an Arbitrarily Partitioned Continuum? To the Editor: Data from the Pressioni Arteriosc Monitorate e Loro Associazioni (PAMELA) study, presented by Mancia et al,1 are invaluable for understanding the true nature of white-coat and masked hypertension. Thus, in terms of long-term risk, the authors’ conclusions that these ...