BACKGROUND Automatic blood pressure monitoring conducted at home is increasingly used in the diagnosis and management of hypertension. We assessed the adequacy of existing British Hypertension Society (BHS) and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) validation standards for automatic blood pressure monitoring devices. SUBJECT AND METHODS A theoretical study and an e...

The SpaceLabs 90207 monitor (Redmond, Washington, USA) for ambulatory blood pr-nue measurement u-as evaluated according to the protocol of the British Hypertension Society (BHS) 111 in normotmsive pregnant women. We have previously evaluated the SpaceLabs 90207 in nonnotmsive and hypertensive men and non-pregnant women according to the BHS protocol (21, In this evaluation the device achieved B ...

We discuss the graviton absorption probability (greybody factor) and the cross-section of a higherdimensional Schwarzschild black hole (BH). We are motivated by the suggestion that a great many BHs may be produced at the LHC and bearing this fact in mind, for simplicity, we shall investigate the intermediate energy regime for a static Schwarzschild BH. That is, for (2M)ω ∼ 1, where M is the mas...

Correspondence to Professor Eoin O’Brien, The Blood Pressure Unit, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland. Tel : +353 1 809 21qO; fax: i-353 1 809 3005; e-mail: [email protected] Introduction Experience with the protocols of the British Hypertension Society (BHS) and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) has provided valuable insight into the methodological problems a...

We cross-correlate the SDSS DR3 quasar sample with FIRST and the Vestergaard et al. black hole (BH) mass sample to compare the mean accretion histories of optical and radio quasars. We find significant statistical evidence that radio quasars have a higher mean Eddington ratio λ at z > 2 with respect to optical quasars, while the situation is clearly reverse at z < 1. At z > 2 radio quasars happ...

The shape of a probability distribution is often summarized by the distribution’s skewness and kurtosis. Starting from a symmetric ”parent” density f on the real line, we can modify its shape (i.e. introduce skewness and in-/decrease kurtosis) if f is appropriately weighted. In particular, every density w on the interval (0, 1) is a specific weighting function. Within this work, we follow up a ...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Early prediction of obesity is essential for prevention. The aim of this study is to assess the use of childhood clinical factors and the genetic risk factors in predicting adulthood obesity using machine learning methods. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 2262 participants from the Cardiovascular Risk in YFS (Young Finns Stud...

OBJECTIVE Twenty-four-hour blood pressure measurement is of importance not only in the detection of hypertension but also in the detection of blood pressure changes in hypertensive and nonhypertensives over the day to identify, for example, nondipper hypertensives. This study describes the validation of the mobil-O-Graph according to the criteria of the British Hypertension Society (BHS). MET...

In the pre-reionization Universe, the regions of the inter-galactic medium (IGM) which are far from luminous sources are the last to undergo reionization. Until then, they should be scarcely affected by stellar radiation; instead, the X-ray emission from an early black hole (BH) population can have much larger influence. We investigate the effects of such emission, looking at a number of BH mod...

INTRODUCTION Automatic blood pressure (BP) measuring devices are more and more often used in BP self-checks and in 24-hour BP monitoring. Nowadays, 24-hour BP monitoring is a necessary procedure in arterial hypertension treatment. The aim of this study was to validate the BPLab(®) ambulatory blood pressure monitor according to the European standard BS EN 1060-4:2004 and the British Hypertension...