Are personality traits associated with white-coat and masked hypertension? [PDF]
Objectives: Anxiety and other psychological dispositions are thought to be associated with blood pressure. This study tests whether personality traits have long-term associations with masked and white-coat effects.
Strait J +11 more
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Some studies reported that home blood pressure (HBP) monitoring was conducted by community-dwelling older people themselves, but there have been few studies on HBP including very old populations aged over 90 years old.
Jinmei Tuo +16 more
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Depression and anxiety in different hypertension phenotypes: a cross-sectional study
Background Hypertension is a major risk factor of cardiovascular mortality. Mood disorders represent a growing public health problem worldwide. A complex relationship is present between mood disorders and cardiovascular diseases.
Zsófia Nemcsik-Bencze +9 more
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Diagnosis, treatment and management of hypertension in Ukraine: survey of doctors
Purpose of the study. The goal of the study was to evaluate the implementation of modern healthcare standards in patients with hypertension by practitioners in Ukraine. Materials and methods.
N.Y. Dotsenko +5 more
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Relations between white coat effect of blood pressure and arterial stiffness
The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between brachial‐ankle pulse wave velocity (b‐a PWV) and white coat effect (WCE), that is the difference between the elevated office blood pressure (BP) and the lower mean daytime pressure of ...
Rong Cao +4 more
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Oxidative stress in white coat hypertension; role of paraoxonase [PDF]
Oxidative stress in sustained hypertension was shown with several biochemical parameters. Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) plays an important role during the atherosclerosis process and paraoxonase (PON1) can significantly inhibit lipid ...
Simsek, G +12 more
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Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for Diagnosis and Management of Hypertension in Pregnant Women
Hypertension disorders during pregnancy has a wide range of severities, from a mild clinical condition to a life-threatening one. Currently, office BP is still the main method for the diagnosis of hypertension during pregnancy.
Walter G. Espeche, Martin R. Salazar
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Properly defining white-coat hypertension [PDF]
Definition of white coat hypertension White coat hypertension (also referred to as 'office hypertension' White coat effect The studies by Mancia and co-workers Is white coat hypertension clinically relevant?
J A Staessen +5 more
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The significance of blood pressure variation and metabolic risk factors in patients with different stages of hypertension [PDF]
Objectives Blood pressure variation (BPV) and metabolic syndrome is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. Ambulatory blood Pressure (ABP) has been shown to be more closely related to cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients than ...
Sun Min Kim +8 more
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WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION – THE RISK FACTOR FOR SUSTAINED HYPERTENSION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE [PDF]
White coat hypertension (WCH) is characterized by variations in the blood pressure of a person between physician’s office and home environment. The presence of physician causes the elevation of blood pressure in patients with WCH, which is a clinical ...
J Vijay Kumar, Gera Jemimah, Yamuna Bonagiri, T Shravani Reddy, M Keerthana, AVSSS Gupta
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