BACKGROUND Absences of normative, 10-20 % declines in blood pressure (BP) at night, termed nocturnal non-dipping, are linked to increased cardiovascular mortality risks. Current literature has linked these absences to psychological states, hormonal imbalance, and disorders involving hyper-arousal. This study focuses on evaluating associations between nocturnal non-dipping and indices of functio...

OBJECTIVES To measure the exposure of a group of farmers to organophosphate pesticide in sheep dip, and to record the incidence of symptoms after exposure. DESIGN A prospective study of the autumn 1992 dipping period. Working methods were assessed by questionnaire. Absorption of organophosphate pesticide was estimated before, immediately after, and six weeks after dipping by measuring plasma ...

Patients with resistant hypertension present high prevalence of a non-dipper blood pressure pattern. Recent results indicate that non-dipping is related partly to the absence of 24-hour therapeutic coverage in patients treated with single morning doses. Accordingly, we investigated the impact of treatment time on the blood pressure pattern in 700 patients with resistant hypertension on the basi...

The pregnancy is a physiological metabolic syndrome and women have to pass this stress test to continue a safe life journey, otherwise consequences of this failure will put harmful burden on cardiovascular system of these women. We have chosen the main critical high risk changes affecting pregnant women which are the preeclampsia, gestational Diabetes Mellitus, giving birth to low weight babies...

The pressure- and temperature-sensitive paint (PSP/TSP) technique, for steady-state and unsteady-state measurements, is becoming widespread. However, unsteady quantitative measurement is still difficult because non-uniform distribution of the probes over a test model may cause errors in the results. We focus on the dipping method that applies two luminophores into a binding material to improve ...

An experimental investigation of orchestral crotale vibrational modes in water is presented, along with a qualitative virtual mass model describing the observed effects. Changes in frequency, overtone ratio, and mode splitting as a function of water depth are reported for a C(6) crotale using electronic speckle-pattern interferometry. These data are related to perceived changes in pitch and tim...

The objective was to promote a reduction in the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus dysgalactiae after 2 years of selective dry cow therapies and teat dipping/external teat sealant implementation. Three different dry cow treatments, one long-acting and two short-acting penicillin-based products were tested at herd level together with a negative control teat dipping group, an i...

Abstract Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects 12-weeks concurrent aerobic plus resistance exercise training (CT) on short –term blood pressure variability (BPV) and BP values in hypertensive patients with nondippper nocturnal pattern underlying coronary artery disease. Methods included 64 who were divided into two groups according pattern: dipping (29 pts) nondipp...

We present results of a 0.1-100 keV BeppoSAX observation of the dipping low-mass X-ray binary (LMXRB) EXO0748–676 performed in 2000 November. During the observation EXO0748–676 exhibited X-ray eclipses, type I X-ray bursts and dipping activity over a wide range of orbital phases. The 0.1–100 keV “dip– free”(ie. dipping and eclipsing intervals excluded) spectrum is complex, especially at low-ene...

We study how the fault dip and slip rake angles affect near-source ground velocities and displacements as faulting transitions from strike-slip motion on a vertical fault to thrust motion on a shallow-dipping fault. Ground motions are computed for five fault geometries with different combinations of fault dip and rake angles and common values for the fault area and the average slip. The nature ...