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Is there a need to redo many of the diagnoses of hypertension?

São Paulo Medical Journal
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Most hypertensive subjects undergoing treatment were diagnosed solely through measurements made in the consultation office. The objective of this study was to redo the diagnosis of treated patients after new clinical measurements ...
José Marcos Thalenberg, Bráulio Luna Filho, Maria Teresa Nogueira Bombig, Yoná Afonso Francisco, Rui Manuel dos Santos Póvoa   +4 more
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The Prevalence of Hypertension in a Specific Industrial Population

South African Family Practice, 1985
No abstract available.
B.C. Botha
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AUSCULTATORY BLOOD-PRESSURE DETERMINATIONS [PDF]

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1910
In October, 1905, Korotkow, of St. Petersburg, first advocated the determination of blood-pressure by auscultation. His method has been thoroughly studied, especially in Germany, and has been adopted by many observers as a routine procedure. Apparently it has been little, if at all, discussed in American or English literature, and in view of the ...
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Identifying and treating high blood pressure in men under 55 years with grade 1 hypertension: the TREAT CASP study and RCT

Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, 2019
Background: There is uncertainty regarding whether or not younger (i.e. aged
Bryan Williams, Ewan McFarlane, Dawid Jedrzejewski, Peter S Lacy   +3 more
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Classification of blood pressure during sleep impacts designation of nocturnal nondipping.

PLOS Digital Health, 2023
The identification of nocturnal nondipping blood pressure (< 10% drop in mean systolic blood pressure from awake to sleep periods), as captured by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, is a valuable element of risk prediction for cardiovascular disease ...
Bobak J Mortazavi, Josefa L Martinez-Brockman, Baylah Tessier-Sherman, Matthew Burg, Mary Miller, Zhale Nowroozilarki, O Peter Adams, Rohan Maharaj, Cruz M Nazario, Maxine Nunez, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Erica S Spatz   +11 more
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Prevalence and factors associated with inter-arm systolic and diastolic blood pressure differences: results from the baseline Fasa Adult’s Cohort Study (FACS)

BMC Public Health
Background One of the modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases is the inter-arm blood pressure difference (IAD), which can be easily measured.
Ali Mouseli, Mehdi Sharafi, Zahra Amiri, Azizallah Dehghan, Elham Haghjoo, Mohammad Ali Mohsenpour, Mohammad Hassan Eftekhari, Hossein Fatemian, Omid Keshavarzian   +8 more
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The Missing Pulse: Incidental Right Subclavian Artery Stenosis Identified in Pre Anaesthetic Assessment: A Case Report

Journal of Nepal Medical Association
Subclavian artery stenosis is an uncommon but clinically significant condition, often undetected until perioperative evaluation reveals inter-arm blood pressure discrepancies.
Megha Koirala, Bigen Man Shakya, Ravi Shekhar   +2 more
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Nikolai Sergeyevich Korotkov: 120 years of his arterial blood pressure measurement method [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled
Nikolai Sergeyevich Korotkov (1874–1920) was a Russian military doctor and surgeon who discovered the technique of non-invasive measurement of arterial blood pressure.
Jelenković Ankica
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Indirect measurement of arterial blood pressure: physiotherapists’ theoretical knowledge [PDF]

Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde, 2003
Blood pressure checking and its theoretical knowledge are crucial to obtain reliable data in clinical examination. Although it is considered a simple technique to be learned and applied, it is not fully dealt with at physiotherapy university courses ...
Marcelle Morgana Vieira de Assis, Júlia Barreto Bastos de Oliveira   +1 more
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Applicability of electronic sphygmomanometer use in high-altitude areas according to the AAMI/ESH/ISO collaboration statement

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
ObjectiveMercury sphygmomanometer (MS) has now been less and less used and no new devices have been manufactured (according to Minamata convention 2013). The application of the electronic sphygmomanometer (ES) in clinical practice has become increasingly
Xueting Liu, Runyu Ye, Xin Zhang, Wen Huang, Lirong Sun, Xingwei Huo, Xiaoping Chen   +6 more
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