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| Jorge J PolóniaSummaryAffiliation: Hospital de Santa Maria Country: Portugal Publications
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Improvement of aortic reflection wave responses 6 months after stopping smoking: a prospective studyJorge Polonia
Unidade Hipertensão e Risco Cardiovascular, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, Faculdade Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
Blood Press Monit 14:69-75. 2009..Cigarette smoking is one important preventable cause of cardiovascular illness that has been associated with increased stiffness of large arteries and wave reflection, which are independent predictors of cardiovascular disease...- Estimation of salt intake by urinary sodium excretion in a Portuguese adult population and its relationship to arterial stiffnessJorge Polonia
Faculdade das Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 25:801-17. 2006..Portugal has one of the highest mortality rates from stroke, a high prevalence of hypertension and probably a high salt intake level... - Blood pressure on arising, morning blood pressure surge and blood pressure variability in white coat hypertensives and in matched normotensives and sustained hypertensivesJorge Polonia
Unidade de Hipertensão e Risco cardiovascular, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 25:693-704. 2006..e. the times at which the majority of cardiovascular events are reported to occur... - Lack of adequate blood pressure control in the morning and evening periods in medicated hypertensive patients considered to be controlled in the officeJorge Polonia
Unidade de Hipertensão e Risco cardiovascular, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 24:1059-72. 2005..In hypertensive patients tight blood pressure (BP) control during the critical morning and evening periods may be relevant for preventing cardiovascular events, which most frequently occur at these times of the day... - Attenuation of heart rate recovery after exercise in hypertensive patients with blunting of the nighttime blood pressure fallJorge Polonia
Centro Clínico MOSS do Porto, Faculdade Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
Int J Cardiol 106:238-43. 2006..To evaluate whether hypertensive patients with attenuation of nighttime blood pressure (BP) fall exhibit a delay of the recovery of heart rate (HR) after exercise as an index of a general decrease in the vagal tone... - Sequential follow-up clinic and ambulatory blood pressure evaluation in a low risk population of white-coat hypertensive patients and in normotensivesJorge J Polónia
Unidade Hipertensão e Risco Cardiovascular, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Portugal
Blood Press Monit 10:57-64. 2005..In subjects with white-coat hypertension (WCH) it is unclear how ambulatory blood pressure (ABPM) progresses over time and whether they exhibit an increased cardiovascular risk... - Morning rise, morning surge and daytime variability of blood pressure and cardiovascular target organ damage. A cross-sectional study in 743 subjectsJorge Polonia
Unidade de Hipertensão e Risco cardiovascular, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 24:65-78. 2005.... - Influence of two doses of irbesartan on non-dipper circadian blood pressure rhythm in salt-sensitive black hypertensives under high salt dietJorge Polonia
Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, Portugal
J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 42:98-104. 2003..It is speculated that blunting of nighttime BP decrease in black salt-sensitive hypertensive patients may be related to a deficient suppression of the renin-angiotensin system during the night... - White coat effect in treated and untreated patients with high office blood pressure. Relationship with pulse wave velocity and left ventricular mass indexAlbino Silveira
, Hospital Pedro Hispano,
Rev Port Cardiol 21:517-30. 2002..2. In WCH antihypertensive therapy does not improve either ambulatory BP values or damage to target organs... - Different influences on central and peripheral pulse pressure, aortic wave reflections and pulse wave velocity of three different types of antihypertensive drugsJorge Polonia
Unidade Hipertensão e Risco Cardiovascular, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 22:1485-92. 2003..To evaluate in hypertensive patients (pts) with similar peripheral blood pressure (BP) whether different antihypertensive treatments have different influences on aortic stiffness, aortic central pressures and aortic wave reflections... - Prevalence of microalbuminuria in non-diabetic hypertensive patients attended by Portuguese GPsJorge Polonia
Portuguese Association of Hypertension, Portuguese Society of Gardiology, Lisbon, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 26:637-44. 2007..To determine the prevalence of microalbuminuria in a sample of non-diabetic hypertensive patients and to correlate the presence of microalbuminuria with the patients' different clinical profiles... - Relationship between aortic stiffness and cardiovascular risk factors in a population of normotensives, white-coat normotensives, white-coat hypertensives, sustained hypertensives and diabetic patientsJosé Alberto Silva
Unidade de Hipertensão Arterial e Risco Cardiovascular do Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 23:1533-47. 2004.... - Influence of pharmacists' attitudes on adverse drug reaction reporting : a case-control study in PortugalMaria T Herdeiro
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, , Gandra, Porto, Portugal
Drug Saf 29:331-40. 2006..Our data also indicate that community pharmacists must be a priority target for this intervention...