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The effectiveness of simulation in preparing student nurses to competently measure blood pressure in the real-world environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This research report outlines the key findings of a collaborative pilot study between the School of Nursing, UCOL, New Zealand, and the Department of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Huddersfield, [UH] England, which sought to evaluate the ...
Bland, Marian, Ousey, Karen
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Unattended automated office blood pressure measurement in children

open access: yesBlood Pressure, 2021
Purpose We studied the performance of unattended automated office blood pressure (uAOBP) measurement in children, in relation to oscillometric office BP (OBP) and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM).
Tomáš Seeman   +4 more
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Comparative characteristics of lifestyle, office and ambulatory blood pressure among students from Tropical Africa, India and Russia

open access: yesКардиоваскулярная терапия и профилактика, 2023
Aim. To study the dependence of office and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) level in students with their ethnicity.Material and methods. A total of 110 students were examined as follows: 35 from Russia, 34 from Tropical Africa and 41 from India.
T. A. Mangileva
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Blood pressure-lowering treatment for prevention of major cardiovascular diseases in people with and without type 2 diabetes:an individual participant-level data meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
BackgroundControversy exists as to whether the threshold for blood pressure-lowering treatment should differ between people with and without type 2 diabetes.
Cushman, WC   +48 more
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Effects of isometric handgrip training on blood pressure among hypertensive patients seen within public primary healthcare: a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesSão Paulo Medical Journal, 2021
BACKGROUND: Meta-analyses have demonstrated that isometric handgrip training (IHT) decreases blood pressure in hypertensive individuals. Nonetheless, most studies were conducted in laboratory settings and its effects in real-world settings remain unclear.
Aline Cabral Palmeira   +7 more
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Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The prevalence of hypertension in African Americans (AAs) is higher than in other US groups; yet, few have performed genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in AA.
Keating, BJ   +999 more
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for the management of hypertension

open access: yesChinese Medical Journal, 2022
. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) has become indispensable in the current management of hypertension. ABPM is particularly useful in the accurate diagnosis of hypertension. Its diagnostic thresholds had been recently established based on hard
Yibang Cheng   +4 more
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Unilateral renal sympathetic denervation may reduce blood pressure in patients with refractory hypertension

open access: yesItalian Journal of Medicine, 2015
A 52-year-old Caucasian woman with essential resistant and refractory hypertension despite optimal medical therapy, including 6 different antihypertensive drugs was referred for the catheter-based renal denervation. Due to unfavourable anatomy because of
Aurelio Negro   +3 more
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Safety and Efficacy of a New Renal Denervation Catheter in Hypertensive Patients in the Absent of Antihypertensive Medications: A Pilot Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Hypertension, 2019
Aim. The aim of present study was to determine the safety and efficacy of a new renal artery denervation system for treatment of hypertensive patients. Methods.
Yang Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Blood pressure is a heritable trait1 influenced by several biological pathways and responsive to environmental stimuli. Over one billion people worldwide have hypertension ($140mmHg systolic blood pressure or$90mmHg diastolic blood pressure)2. Even small
Harst, P. (Pim) van der   +999 more
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