Abstract Background Dipping of blood pressure (BP) at night is a normal physiological phenomenon. However, non-dipping pattern associated with hypertension mediated organ damage, secondary forms and poorer long-term outcome. Identifying may be useful in assessing risk, aiding the decision to investigate for causes, initiating treatment, assisting decisions on choice timing anti-hypertensive the...

BACKGROUND Non-dipping pattern in hypertensive patients has been shown to be associated with an excess of target organ damage and with an adverse outcome. The aim of our study was to assess whether a reduced nocturnal fall in blood pressure (BP), established on the basis of a single 24-h BP monitoring, in treated essential hypertensives is related to more prominent cardiac alterations. METHOD...

BACKGROUND The goal of our study was to assess the influence of hypertension chronopharmacotherapy on diurnal blood pressure (BP) profile and mortality. METHODS Subjects with established coronary heart disease (CHD) (n = 1345, mean age 63.2 ± 9.2 years) were included. RESULTS Non-dipping status was related to a lack of nighttime hypertensive drug administration (OR 3.87, 95% CI 3.00-4.98). ...

Dynamic incentives, where incentives to repay are generated by granting access to future loans, is one of the methodologies used by microfinance institutions (MFIs). In this paper, I present a model of dynamic incentives where lenders are uncertain over how much borrowers value future loans. Loan terms are determined endogenously, and loans become more favorable as the probability of default be...

BACKGROUND Elevated mean platelet volume may reflect presence of active large platelets, which lead to fatal or non-fatal cardiovascular events. In recent studies, lack of nocturnal blood pressure fall was presented as an independent predictor of poor prognosis in essential hypertension. The relation of raised MPV with left ventricular hypertrophy has also been reported in hypertension. The aim...

Timing of Antihypertensive Therapy and Circadian Blood Pressure Pattern To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by de la Sierra et al1 about the prevalence and factors associated with circadian blood pressure patterns in a huge population of 42 947 hypertensive patients studied with 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Their cross-sectional study shows an associat...

Titanium oxide (TiO2) nanowires were prepared for an electrolytic capacitor application by the automatic dipping technique using a porous alumina template. The automatic dipping technique allows us to exactly control the dipping rate so that we can obtain homogenous infiltration of nanowires in the porous alumina membrane, even though the solution is very acidic. From the TEM, SEM and XRD measu...

The 17 December 2016 Solomon Islands earthquake (Mw 7.9) initiated ~103 km deep in the subducting Solomon Sea slab near the junction of the Solomon Islands and New Britain trenches. Most aftershocks are located near the Solomon Islands plate boundary megathrust west of Bougainville, where previous large interplate thrust faulting earthquakes occurred in 1995 (Mw 7.7) and 1971 (Mw 8.0). Teleseis...

Background Postmenopausal women are more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension and at higher risk of cardiovascular disease compared with age-matched men. Blood pressure variability is emerging as a predictor adverse outcomes may be implicated in the relationship between menopause worsened vascular health women. We conducted an observational study, BRAVE (Blood pRessure And Vascular hEalth a...

BACKGROUND Refractory arterial hypertension (RAH) is frequently associated to a non-dipping blood pressure (BP) pattern; this profile has been shown to have a worse clinical prognosis. It is a common clinical practice that patients receive anti-hypertensive medication preferentially in the morning. Non-dipping could be related to the timing of anti-hypertensive drug administration. We analysed ...