BACKGROUND Epicardial fat tissue is known to have an unique endocrine function which affect the cardiac autonomic system. Heart rate recovery (HRR) is a simple non-invasive measurement that assesses autonomic nervous system dysfunction. We aimed to investigate the association among epicardial fat thickness (EFT), HRR and circadian blood pressure (BP) variation in patients with hypertension. M...

Amaç: Kardiyovasküler hastalıklar açısından hipertansiyon önemli bir risk faktörüdür. Amblatuvar kan basıncı monitörizasyonu(AKBM) ile yapılan çalışmalar basıncının gün içerisinde değiştiğini ve sirkadiyen ritminin olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Kan basıncında gece % 10 veya daha fazla düşme olması dipper (HT), olmaması non-dipper HT olarak nitelendirilmiştir. Non-dipper HT’li hastalarda kardiyovas...

We assessed whether biota occupying mountain streams accumulate and biomagnify remotely derived organic pollutants originating from atmospheric inputs to snowpack and glacial runoff and from marine sources introduced by migrating anadromous salmon. Several persistent organic pollutants including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), p,p'-dichloro-diphenyl-dichloroethylene, hexachlorobenzene, and tr...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to observe the relation between blood pressure variability (BPV) and early renal damage in hypertensive patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 118 hypertensive patients were consecutively selected. General parameters including sex, age, duration, and grade of hypertension, antihypertensive drugs taken, smoking status, blood sugar, blood lipi...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is a very important cause of morbidity and mortality. Serum gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) is a biomarker of oxidative stress and associated with increased risk of hypertension and diabetes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of serum GGT level, which is an early marker of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, with the deterioration of the diu...

Limited information is available on whether and to what extent the different patterns of the nocturnal blood pressure profile reported in hypertension are characterized by differences in sympathetic drive that may relate to, and account for, the different day-night blood pressure changes. In 34 untreated middle-aged essential hypertensive dippers, 17 extreme dippers, 18 nondippers, and 10 rever...

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) provides a lot of information on diurnal blood pressure (BP) profiles. In most of the population, night time BP values are 10-20% lower than day time BP values (dipper), whereas in the minority of the population, the nocturnal BP decrease is blunted or even absent (non-dipper). The non-dipper phenotype has been shown to be highly prevalent in various ...