BACKGROUND Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) provides relevant data about blood pressure over a 24-h period. The analysis of parameters to determine the blood pressure profile from these data is of great importance. OBJECTIVES To calculate areas under systolic and diastolic blood pressure curves (SBP-AUC/DBP-AUC) and compare with systolic and diastolic blood pressure load (SBPL/DBPL...

BACKGROUND Current oscillometric blood pressure measurement devices generally provide only single-point estimates for systolic and diastolic blood pressures and rarely provide confidence ranges for these estimates. A novel methodology to obtain confidence intervals (CIs) for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) estimates from a single oscillometric blood pressure mea...

Background: Blood pressure in patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) is influenced by autonomic cardiovascular dysfunction, endocrinopathies, nephropathy and nutritional factors. We aimed to evaluate systemic and diastolic blood pressure and its severity among children and adolescents with SCA and determine its association with clinical and hematological variables. Methods: This case-control s...

AIM To investigate the relationship between nocturnal blood pressure and chronically elevated blood glucose to determine if these elevated blood glucose concentrations contribute to a non-dipping blood pressure, especially in high-risk groups such as Africans. METHODS Nocturnal blood pressures and blood glucose levels of 41 non-dipping African and 28 non-dipping Caucasian men were investigate...

abstract background and objective: obesity is an important risk factor for development of hypertension. we investigated the association between body mass index (bmi) and blood pressure in adolescents. methods: the cross-sectional study was performed on 694 adolescents aged 12-18 years from middle and high schools located in 4 districts of shiraz, iran. height, weight, and systolic and diastolic...

Introduction: Intradialytic hypotension (IDH) is a frequent complication of hemodialysis. IDH causes intradialytic discomfort and subclinical ischemia, resulting in higher rate morbidity mortality. Levocarnitine (LC) administration has been suggested for the treatment IDH, but conflicting reports about its efficacy have published. We describe effect LC supplementation patients experiencing recu...

To examine the cardiovascular adaptations and functional capacity (6 min walk test, rate of perceived exertion, resting heart rate, maximal systolic diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure) by giving Aerobic Exercises in Post Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty patients. The need for study is to know efficiency aerobic exercises post percutaneous transluminal coronary angiop...

Abstract Background and Objective: Obesity is an important risk factor for development of hypertension. We investigated the association between body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure in adolescents. Methods: The cross-sectional study was performed on 694 adolescents aged 12-18 years from middle and high schools located in 4 districts of Shiraz, Iran. Height, weight, and systolic and diastolic...

Objective: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is the most common target organ damage in hypertension. However, the association of LVH and circadian rhythm of blood pressure (BP) is unknown. The objective of the present study was to explore the relationship between circadian rhythm of BP and LVH using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). Study design: A total of 325 untreated hypertensiv...