BACKGROUND Frenkel's ambulatory activity has been routinely employed by physiotherapists for rehabilitation of gait coordination, however, its immediate influence on blood pressure and heart rate has not been investigated. OBJECTIVE To investigate the acute effect of Frenkel's ambulatory activity on blood pressure and heart rate of chronic hemiparetic stroke survivors. METHOD Using a compar...

To the Editor: Banegas et al,1 for the Spanish Society of Hypertension Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Registry Investigators, have examined the sensitivity and specificity of office blood pressure measurements in assessing control of hypertension in treated patients. The “gold standard” reference was the daytime component of a 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. In this manner, ...

Effects of Western diet and lifestyle factors resulting in hypertension are known, however, the effects of lifestyle on blood pressure variability measured by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring are not sufficiently well known. In the present case, it has been observed that Western diet, sedentary behavior and mental load in a subject with normal blood pressures were associated with blood pres...

OBJECTIVES We hypothesized that one minus the slope of diastolic on systolic blood pressure in individual 24-h ambulatory blood pressure recordings (ambulatory arterial stiffness index) might reflect arterial stiffness and predict cardiovascular mortality. METHODS In volunteers and a population recruited in China, we studied concordance between ambulatory arterial stiffness index and establis...

Besides an overall increase in blood pressure, hemodialysis patients have marked disturbance in interdialytic ambulatory blood pressure pattern that is characterized by blunted circadian amplitude and a steady rise in blood pressure between dialysis treatments. The pathophysiology of this abnormal blood pressure profile is poorly understood. We hypothesized that the circadian amplitude, the int...

Some epidemiological studies on blood pressure among children and adolescents have revealed that blood pressure levels in childhood are the strongest predictors of adult blood pressure levels. In the adult population, hypertension causes a two to threefold increase in an individual's risk of cardiovascular morbidity. Cardiovascular risk depends on blood pressure itself, coexistent risk factors ...

Background: Previous studies have indicated that Ramadan fasting has beneficial effects on cardiovascular risk factors, specially blood pressure and heart rate. In the present study, the effect of Ramadan fasting on 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate has been investigated. Materials and Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted on two groups of individuals. Six p...

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether sustained hypertensives with high clinic blood pressure, despite multiple drug treatment, show a true resistant hypertension or a ‘‘white-coat effect,’’ and whether the pretreatment white-coat effect is maintained despite pharmacological therapy. The occurrence of resistant hypertension was determined in 250 consecutive essential hypertensives who h...

The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between blood pressure measured conventionally ('conventional' pressure) and 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measured with the SpaceLabs 90202 recorder, in a control population with normal blood pressure, and in patients with hypertension. Reference values for 24 h ambulatory blood pressure had been determined previously in a control populatio...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is recommended for several diseases in childhood; however, there are no reports about its use in the monitoring of children with dilated cardiomyopathy so far. We evaluated the pattern of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children with dilated cardiomyopathy and correlated it to height, weight, and body mass index. METHODS: P...