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..As hourly reproducibility of SBPM response is better than reproducibility of both hourly ABPM and office BP response, SBPM seems to be the most appropriate method for evaluating residual antihypertensive effect...

..Importantly, use of the technique of applanation tonometry to derive the central waveform from non-invasively acquired peripheral data needs to be validated prospectively...

..Empathy builds trust and is a potent motivator. Finally, in presenting these guidelines, the committee recognizes that the responsible physician's judgment remains paramount...

..There is increasing evidence that a failure of blood pressure to fall during the night may be associated with increased risk. In obese patients and children, the use of an appropriate cuff size is of paramount importance...

..There is increasing evidence that a failure of blood pressure to fall during the night may be associated with increased risk. In obese patients and children, the use of an appropriate cuff size is of paramount importance...

..A focus on hypertension by someone in addition to the patient's physician was associated with substantial improvement. Future research should examine the contributions of individual QI strategies and their relative costs...

..Referral of patients to nonoffice settings for automated BP recordings may provide a more accurate estimate of a patient's BP status, with partial elimination of the white coat effect associated with readings taken by a physician...

..The aim of the study was to compare aortic pulse wave velocity measurements using Complior, SphygmoCor, and Arteriograph devices, and to assess the effect of pulse wave transit time and traveled distance on pulse wave velocity values...

..To compare blood pressure measurements taken in routine clinical practice using an automated recorder, the BpTRU (VSM MedTech Ltd, Coquitlam, Canada), with readings taken by a conventional mercury sphygmomanometer...

..Details of the wave shape were reproduced slightly better with ITF but not significantly, thus individualization of pressure transfer is not effective in resting patients...

..CONCLUSIONS: The Omron M-5I and the Omron 705IT devices pass the validation recommendations of the international protocol...

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..Ambulatory BP monitoring is the best established technique for doing this, but home monitoring may be applicable in the future...

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..To test the accuracy of a new algorithm for the BPM-100, an automated oscillometric blood pressure (BP) monitor, using stored data from an independently conducted validation trial comparing the BPM-100(Beta) with a mercury sphygmomanometer...

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..To examine the possibility of measuring automated office (AO) blood pressure (BP) using home BP recorders in place of the more expensive, fully automated devices designed specifically for professional use...

..To assess the accuracy of oscillometric and auscultatory blood pressure (BP) measurement taken using the professional electronic device Microlife Watch BP Office according to the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol...

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..This study was undertaken to assess the consistency of automated self-measurement of BP in the office during repeat visits and in different settings. Automated office BP readings were also compared with the mean awake ambulatory BP...

..The latest development using this methodology is the Nexfin monitor. The present study evaluated the accuracy of Nexfin noninvasive arterial pressure (NAP) compared with auscultatory BP measurements (Riva-Rocci/Korotkoff, RRK)...

..To determine the optimum interval between serial blood pressure measurements using an automated BpTRU sphygmomanometer...

..Attention should now go to analysis of the arterial pressure waveforms, and the combination with other signals (e.g. flow wave morphology) to allow a complete non-invasive haemodynamical description of the heart and the arterial tree...

..In subjects 70 to 100 years old, aortic PWV is a strong, independent predictor of cardiovascular death, whereas systolic or pulse pressure was not. This prospective result will need to be confirmed in an intervention trial...

..68, p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: SVV may help to determine the preload condition of ventilated patients following cardiac surgery and to predict and continuously monitor effects of volume administered as part of their hemodynamic management...

..CONCLUSIONS: The Omron M6 (HEM-7001-E) and the Omron R7 (HEM 637-IT) devices fulfilled the validation recommendations of the International Protocol...

..PAD prevalence increases dramatically with age and disproportionately affects blacks. The vast majority of individuals with PAD have 1 or more cardiovascular disease risk factors that should be targeted for therapy...

..A significant proportion of women were not being screened for unresolved pre-eclampsia at their six-week routine postnatal examination...

..Our objective was to study intra-aneurysm pressure after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) in shrinking, unchanged, and expanding abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) with and without endoleaks...

..Only the recommendations that achieved high levels of consensus are reported. These guidelines will be updated annually...

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..Although endorsed by the Joint National Committee VII guidelines, home monitoring is not currently part of the standard care of hypertension...

..This study explores the associations between individual characteristics such as income and education with health behaviours and utilization of preventive screening...

..This would account for the difference that exists between the techniques. Comparison with a direct arterial line would confirm which non-invasive measurement is more accurate...

..CONCLUSIONS: The JNC-7 classification had a stronger predictive power using HBP-based classification compared with CBP-based classification, suggesting the usefulness of HBP in the management of hypertension...

..In the case of contracted finger arteries, the MOC can give an overestimation of up to 19 mmHg, the pressure pulse shape index being 0.21 and the pulse amplitude 60 mmHg. In the case of relaxed arteries, the error is less evident...

..The aim of the present study was to investigate whether a white coat effect (WCE) can be observed and quantified in community pharmacy practice...

..To determine normal values for 24 h ambulatory blood pressure in a Danish population and to study the relationship to casual blood pressure...

..We advocate 0.90 as the cut-off value to distinguish patients who need further arterial assessment...

..It will be valuable in the care of many patients, such as those with critical illness, cardiovascular dysfunction, trauma or undergoing major surgery...

..The AAI should be calculated for each foot separately by dividing the highest ankle SBP by the highest arm SBP...

..This study presents the validation results of the Microlife BPA100 Plus monitor for self-home blood pressure measurement, according to the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of home blood pressure (BP) measurement, the type of devices and accuracy in a large sample of hypertensive patients referred to hospital outpatient hypertension clinics...

..The hypothesis was: there is no difference between the accepted normal value of ABPI (1.00) and the observed value of ABPI in healthy adults in the 20-40-year age group...

..Thus, if femoral arterial monitoring is not available, clinicians should rely on mean rather than systolic arterial pressure measurements from a radial artery catheter during liver transplantation...

..In a clinical trial involving this age group, far fewer subjects would be required if 24-h BP was the primary efficacy endpoint rather than the office BP...

..Our findings suggest that an important reason why home and office BP values are not adequately controlled is that physicians approve relatively higher BP levels under treatment, even among middle-aged patients...

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..We designed this prospective study to compare the accuracy of the FloTrac system (CO(FT)) vs. pulmonary artery catheter standard bolus thermodilution (CO(PAC) ) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting...

..Physicians might encourage their patients to invest in a home blood pressure monitor that they can bring with them to their visit to calibrate against the physician's own machine...

..To examine the relationship between the normal nocturnal decline in blood pressure and the risk of cardiovascular mortality in individuals with and without high 24-h blood pressure values...

..The increase in variation observed may therefore lead to an increased variation in the quality of care given to patients...

..CONCLUSIONS: Inflationary oscillometry is a valid technique for the measurement of blood pressure. The OMRON-MIT, which uses this technique, is accurate and can be recommended for clinical use in the adult population...

..This article summarizes the discussion of the dedicated Task Force during the first Conference of Consensus on Arterial Stiffness held in June 2000 (Paris, France)...

..1 decrement in the AAI. An AAI of <0.9 is an independent risk factor for incident CVD, recurrent CVD, and mortality in this group of older adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study...

..This study was performed to determine intra-aneurysm sac pressure of abdominal aortic aneurysm after endovascular aneurysm repair in patients considered successfully treated with aneurysm shrinkage and absence of endovascular leakage...

..385, p < 0.01). This may suggest that the current practice of assigning one particular ABPI value as normal (1.00) is not reliable and that the way in which the index is interpreted needs to be reappraised...

..The objective of this study was to assess the accuracy of the HEM-907, a new semi-automatic, non-invasive, oscillometric blood pressure monitoring device specifically designed to be used in the clinic or physician's office setting...

..However, some tail-cuff methods show good agreement with radiotelemetry and others do not, indicating that each tail-cuff method requires independent validation...

..This effect is related to the increase of arterial compliance observed after treatment with perindopril, as already reported by other authors...

..The accuracy of automated oscillometric devices has been questioned. In addition the acceptability of these devices for research under the field conditions is unclear...

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..Further longitudinal studies are required to determine whether these alterations play a role in the increased risk of late hypertension in these patients...

..To evaluate the effect of nebivolol and nitrate administration on the arterial compliance--an essential factor for left ventricular hypertrophy regression...

..The main reason for this would appear to be a lack of intensive treatment and a lack of recognition by physicians that their patients' BP was insufficiently controlled...

..A treatment algorithm based on the angiotensin receptor blocker, telmisartan, was confirmed by the blinded end point of ABPM as an efficacious alternative to other antihypertensive regimens in clinical practice...

..It was postulated that the relationship of BP to age differs among hemodialysis patients versus the general population and that there is significant variability in dialysis unit BP measurements...

..Results may help to better compare blood pressure values in epidemiologic studies that used different blood pressure devices...

..0%. Cardio-Sis is the first randomized study specifically designed to compare two different SBP goals. Results will be broadly applicable to subjects with uncontrolled SBP under anti-hypertensive treatment...

..To study the association of blood pressure (BP) status on the optic disk structure as measured with the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) in people without glaucoma...

..Using 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, we studied the repeatability of the morning blood pressure in older (> or =60 years) patients with isolated systolic hypertension...

..Therefore, from the clinical point of view, extreme caution in the titration of the antihypertensive therapy for elevated systolic values when the range of diastolic blood pressure is below 70-80 mmHg...

..Further studies are still needed to confirm that, in humans, interventions that can reduce BPV can also reduce the rate of cardiovascular events...

..However, the burden of underestimation and overestimation of BP control at the office is still remarkable. Physicians should be aware that the likelihood of misestimating BP control is higher in some hypertensive subjects...

..A procedure for routine servicing or replacement of both BMDs and cuffs is needed, as well as optimisation of medication delivery to remote areas...

..We evaluated which home blood pressure (BP) measurement was most useful in clinical evaluation when we measured it three times per sitting...

..We tested the accuracy of the HEM-780REL automatic blood pressure monitor with Easy Wrap Cuff...

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..THE AIM of the research was the comparison of results of different method of measurement blood pressure of adults. The measurement was taken with three types of instruments at different parts of upper limb: arm and wrist...

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..The precision, reproducibility, and trend of association over the scale of measurement were improved in the repeated compared to individual measurements, whereas consistency did not improve...

..To obtain unbiased views of primary-care physicians about home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM)...

..Home blood pressure monitoring devices have a major role in this setting, provided that their accuracy in measuring blood pressure is demonstrated by validation studies...

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..2 +/- 1.0. Effectiveness of hypertension treatment by GPs in Poland remained unsatisfactory despite frequent implementation of combined antihypertensive drug therapy...

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..To compare the accuracy of clinic blood pressure (CBP) and telemedical home blood pressure (HBP) measurement in the assessment of antihypertensive effect...

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..The findings are expected to lead to clinical strategies enabling greater recognition of hypertension, and therefore, ultimately to a reduction in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the population. ..

..We hypothesize that that volume control can improve BP and antihypertensive therapy can regress left ventricular hypertrophy in long-term hemodialysis patients. ..

..Novelty and Health Relatedness of the Project: This proposal will provide translational data on the role of intravenous iron to progression of kidney disease in patients with CKD. ..

..Evaluation of such strategies will improve BP control in hemodialysis patients and, in the long-term, provide cardiovascular protection. ..

..Clinic and 24-hour blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) will be additional outcomes. We expect that BP and HR will decrease more among CM than non-CM patients and reductions in smoking may mediate decreases in these indices. ..

..This study will provide information that will be important if clinical trials targeting nocturnal BP are to be designed. ..

..Clinic and 24-hour blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) will be additional outcomes. We expect that BP and HR will decrease more among CM than non-CM patients and reductions in smoking may mediate decreases in these indices. ..

..The demonstration of a conditioned placebo effect that produces a sustained reduction of BP could result in more economical treatment with fewer side effects. ..

..Successful achievement of these specific aims may ultimately lead to a practical technique that is routinely employed to advance the basic understanding of the TPR baroreflex in both humans and animals in health and disease. ..

..The findings of reduced risk of CVD mortality, however, as well as effects by age, should be explored further to clarify the public health message. ..

..This cohort provides a unique resource to address the impact in a normotensive population of salt restriction and weight change on subsequent cardiovascular events. ..

..The results of this study may aid in the early identification of individuals at increased risk for hypertension, thus fostering primary prevention and/or early treatment of EH. ..

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..If increased salt intake improves insulin sensitivity this should prompt a re-evaluation of the benefits of recommending a lower sodium intake in normotensive people. ..

..They further state that the results of this study will be used to develop subsequent intervention studies designed to improve quality of life and prevent functional decline among men and women with PAD. ..

..The data collected on the proposed clinical, genetic and humoral factors at our experienced Clinical Center will contribute substantially to the understanding of CRI, and CVD in subjects with CRI.. ..

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..Findings may help clinicians identify patients who are at particularly high-risk for an impending heart attack. Results are also expected to elucidate specific triggers of acute coronary events. ..

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..The studies could provide a basis for longer-term clinical studies on NEFAs and BP regulation as well as basic experiments to elucidate signaling mechanisms. ..

..Furthermore, these studies will answer critical questions regarding the mechanical mechanisms of right ventricular dysfunction secondary to pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension. ..

..Furthermore, these studies will answer critical questions regarding the mechanical mechanisms of right ventricular dysfunction secondary to pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension. ..

..Furthermore, these studies will answer critical questions regarding the mechanical mechanisms of right ventricular dysfunction secondary to pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension. ..

..This "personalized medicine" promises safer, more effective treatment for patients with cancer. This grant will help train Dr. Maitland to be an expert in the conduct of clinical and laboratory studies for personalized cancer medicine. ..

..Furthermore, it is expected that these data will provide a basis for public health education strategies and treatment modalities to prevent or reduce severity of diabetic retinopathy in all diabetic patients...

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..It is conceivable that this project will provide information leading to safer and more effective drug-eluting stents. ..

..The testing of this hypothesis is the focus of this application. The proposed hypothesis is absolutely novel. The concept that DPP IV exists in the renal vasculature and regulates renal blood flow has never been proposed or tested. ..

..It is conceivable that this project will provide information leading to safer and more effective drug-eluting stents. ..

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