The authors examined the effects of olmesartan-based treatment on clinic systolic blood pressure (CSBP) and morning home systolic blood pressure (HSBP) in 21,340 patients with masked hypertension (MH), white-coat hypertension (WCH), poorly controlled hypertension (PCH), and well-controlled hypertension (CH) using data from the Home Blood Pressure Measurement With Olmesartan Naive Patients to Es...

The development of unsupervised hashing is advanced by the recent popular contrastive learning paradigm. However, previous learning-based works have been hampered (1) insufficient data similarity mining based on global-only image representations, and (2) hash code semantic loss caused augmentation. In this paper, we propose a novel method, namely Weighted Contrative Hashing (WCH), to take step ...

BACKGROUND Studies using ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring have shown that in children and adolescents masked hypertension (MH) is not uncommon. This school-based study investigated the prevalence and the characteristics of MH diagnosed using home BP measurements. METHODS A total of 765 subjects aged 6-18 years were assessed with office (two visits, six readings) and home BP measureme...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The detection of white coat hypertension (WCH), treated normalized hypertension, and masked hypertension (MH) is important to improve the effectiveness of hypertension management. However, whether global cardiovascular risk (GCR) profile has any effect on the discordance between ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) and clinic blood pressure (CBP) is unknown. METHODS Data from 1,916...

The term “white-coat hypertension” (WCH; also commonly referred to as isolated office hypertension) describes the transient increase in blood pressure (BP), resulting from an alerting reaction and pressor response, observed in certain individuals when attending a clinic or doctors’ office.1 The diagnosis of WCH is usually ascribed when clinic BPs exceed 135/85 mm Hg and average daytime BPs do n...

Metabolic syndrome is an accelerated systemic atherosclerotic process terminating with obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, peripheric artery disease, chronic renal disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cirrhosis, coronary heart disease, stroke, and eventually early aging and death. It shows itself with some reversible components including smoking, overweight, hyperbetalipoprotei...

The out-of-office assessment should preferably be done using 24-hour ambulatory BP [blood pressure] measurement (ABPM). A series of measurements with home BP measurement (HBPM) can be done if ABPM is not available or not tolerated by the patient (level II evidence). If the average of the out-of-office readings is normal, a diagnosis of WCH [white-coat hypertension] is made. Patients with WCH sh...

We propose and study WCh-branes of M-theory and type IIA theory on backgrounds that are related by Hopf T-duality. The dynamics of these branes, with a reasonable degree of gauge symmetry, is reduced to that for particles that evolve somewhere along elastic worldlines. This constitutes an interesting holographic principle that allows us to determine moduli spaces of soliton solutions for WCh-br...

BACKGROUND Hypertensive patients (HTs) are usually attended in primary care (PC). We aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy and cost-benefit ratio of 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in all newly diagnosed hypertensive patients (HTs) attended in PC. METHODS In a cross-sectional study ABPM was recorded in all 336 never treated HTs (Office BP ≥140 and/or ≥ 90 mm Hg) that wer...

Introduction. In 2010 more than 3 million children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were living in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AIDS epidemic has contributed to an abrupt increase of the frequency of Kaposi sarcoma (KS), especially in Southern Africa. There is a need to describe the clinical features of this disease, its management, and its outcome in HIV positive children in Southern Africa....