The aim of this study was to assess the contribution of physical activity levels to blood pressure (BP) variability, and to assess the effect age, gender, body mass index, and use of antihypertensive medications on this relationship. We simultaneously monitored 24-h ambulatory BP by automated recorder and activity by actigraphy in 431 patients. Mean activity scores for the 5, 10, 15, and 20 min...

Background: Normal standard references of blood pressure (BP) for children and adolescents have been suggested to be constructed based on anthropometric indices. Accordingly, we aimed to develop first BP reference percentiles by weight and age for Iranian children aged 3-18 years old. Materials and Methods: A total of 16,246 children and adolescents aged 3-18 years were included from 3 cross-se...

introduction: world health organization (who) introduced hypertension as an epidemic in developing countries. however, hypertension is adequately controlled in only 12.5% of patients.  the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between ramadan fasting and mean arterial pressure (map). methods: this clinical, observational study was carried out at medical o.p.d of jinnah medical coll...

In pediatric age diagnosis of hypertension is defined using a statistical criterion, the limit being the 95th percentile of the distribution of the blood pressure values, according to gender, age and height [1]. Prehypertension is defined as blood pressure (BP) values consistently above or equal to the 90th percentile, but lower than the 95th [Table 1]. The “gold standard” method to measure BP ...

Abstract Stationary devices for continuous blood pressure (BP) with user-friendly finger sensors are getting common in various clinical fields and new wearable BP-monitors about to enter the medical world. Apart from commonly used parameters systolic diastolic BP, beat-to-beat as well pulse shape information of these is not easily accessible. This article a review existing pattern recognition a...

UNLABELLED Hypertension is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Despite this, patients often cannot or inaccurately estimate their risk factors. OBJECTIVES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE PHARMACIST INTERVENTIONS, WE SOUGHT TO: 1) find out patients' knowledge about blood pressure (BP) and their self-monitoring behaviors and 2) identify the relationships between these two elements. Specifi...

Evidence for genomic regions influencing systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) were assessed in a whole genome linkage analysis in 211 African American and 160 white families as part of the GenNet network of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-sponsored Family Blood Pressure Program. Multipoint regression and variance components linkage methods were used to analyze 372 polymorphic...

The aim of this study was to compare mean blood pressure (BP), anthropometric and body compositional measurements in three Chinese communities and to examine relationships between BP and body composition in these communities. A total of 935 adult (aged >= 25 years) men and women were randomly sampled from three communities (Chauzhou County speaking Teochew, Meixian County speaking Hakka, and Xi...

background: previous researches reported inconclusive findings on the interaction of helicobacter pylori (h.pylori) infection with body indices, although, most of these studies used body mass index (bmi) to assess such an association. the aim of this study was to investigate the association of h.pylori seropositivity with anthropometric indices as well as blood pressure (bp) among a group of yo...