We performed a cross-sectional study in a small town in northern Japan to evaluate the distribution, reference values, and daily variation in ambulatory blood pressure. A total of 705 subjects (229 men aged 61.3 +/- 13.4 years [mean +/- SD] and 476 women aged 57.5 +/- 13.3 years; 41.1% of the regional adult population, n = 1716), including those treated with antihypertensive drugs (n = 231, 66....

OBJECTIVE To measure the effects of increasing mean arterial pressure (MAP) on systemic oxygen metabolism and regional tissue perfusion in septic shock. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Medical and surgical intensive care units of a tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS Ten patients with the diagnosis of septic shock who required pressor agents to maintain a MAP > or = 60 mm Hg after...

• Mercury exposure (blood, urine and hair) in 238 ASGM miners was assessed Colombia. A 55% of the (n = 131) had Hg/methylmercury values hair above EPA threshold. levels amalgam burners were 6 to 8-fold higher than all other miners. Fish intake, burning manipulate significant indicators Hg exposure. Exposure clearly depend on different processing activities carried out ASGM. With aim protecting ...

The efficacy of three hypertonic saline solutions for treating dialysis-induced hypotension in a randomized, blinded, crossover clinical trial of 10 patients (a minimum of three cycles per solution) was compared. Dialysis-induced hypotension, defined as a decrease in systolic blood pressure of at least 10 mm Hg or systolic blood pressure less than 100 mm Hg, was treated with an iv bolus of eith...

OBJECTIVE This report presents estimates for the period 2001-2008 of means and selected percentiles of systolic and diastolic blood pressure by sex, race or ethnicity, age, and hypertension status in adults aged 18 and over. METHODS Demographic characteristics were collected during a personal interview, and blood pressures were measured during a physician examination. All estimates were calcu...

Recent studies show that healthy subjects and patients with moderate hypertension have different pressor responses to hyperventilation, depending on their sympathoadrenergic reactivity. In the present study, we investigated whether a different response to the hyperventilation test is related to differences in the daily blood pressure profiles recorded with noninvasive ambulatory monitoring. For...

INTRODUCTION Blood pressure measurement in clinical care settings seldom follows the protocol recommended by national guidelines, potentially leading to overestimates or underestimates of blood pressure control. We evaluated blood pressure measurement methods as a source of bias in determining blood pressure control among community-dwelling adults with diabetes. METHODS In a community-based t...

OBJECTIVES To compare the agreement between conventional measurement of blood pressure and measurements obtained using two automated devices; and to compare how comfortable each of the three methods of measurement were for patients. METHODS Blood pressure measurements and patient comfort scores were recorded using three different devices in 125-surgery and 40-community patients. The devices u...

Data from randomized controlled trials to guide antihypertensive agent choice for chronic hypertension in pregnancy are limited; this study aimed to compare labetalol and nifedipine, additionally assessing the impact of ethnicity on treatment efficacy. Pregnant women with chronic hypertension (12+0-27+6 weeks' gestation) were enrolled at 4 UK centers (August 2014 to October 2015). Open-label fi...

Use of the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, which is rich in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy foods, significantly lowers blood pressure. Among the 459 participants in the DASH Trial, 72 had stage 1 isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) (systolic blood pressure, 140 to 159 mm Hg; diastolic blood pressure, <90 mm Hg). We examined the blood pressure response in these 72 pa...