BACKGROUND Knowing the normative blood pressure (BP) in a newborn baby is important in order to identify abnormal BP readings. This study was done to determine normative BP values of Nigerian newborns, using the 8100 Dinamap monitor. METHODS Consecutive full-term neonates delivered in a tertiary centre in Nigeria were recruited for the study. The babies' systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP) and me...

Purpose. This study investigated the anthropometric indices associated with variations in cardiovascular parameters among primary school pupils in Ile-Ife. Method. One thousand and twenty-six pupils (age range 6-14 years, mean age 10.12 years) from ten schools were recruited with parents' informed consent. Anthropometric (Height (Ht), Weight (Wt), Abdominal Circumference (AC)) and cardiovascula...

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...

BACKGROUND Higher left ventricular mass (LV) strongly predicts cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis patients. Although several parameters of preload and afterload have been associated with higher LV mass, whether these parameters independently predict LV mass, remains unclear. METHODS This study examined a cohort of 391 adults with incident hemodialysis enrolled in the Predictors of Arrhy...

Pulse pressure (PP) is defined as the difference between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). Physiologically, both pressures increase throughout life due to the increase of stroke volume and/or peripheral vascular resistance (PVR). In the sixth decade of age, the PP increases with increasing SBP and decreasing DBP due to an increase of arterial stiffness [1]. The P...

The prevention of cardiovascular disease could be better efficient if the follow-up blood pressure (BP) profile was effective during childhood. Investigations on normal range early life and adolescence were not sufficiently documented in African countries for foreseeing adequate prevented health public actions. This study aims to determine apparently healthy pupils identify modifiable risk fact...

This paper describes a method that uses two cuffs to improve accuracy of blood pressure and hemodynamics estimation. A specially designed dual-cuff experimental system was used to acquire and process data from the two cuffs. The arm cuff provided cuff pressures and cuff arterial pulse waveforms. The arm cuff pulse pressure waveforms were used to compute mean arterial pressure (MAP), systolic pr...