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Framingham Heart Study physicians. The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study of residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts.The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on its third generation of participants. [1]
Blood pressure readings taken while a person's arm is in the wrong position could lead to a misdiagnosis of hypertension, a new study found. During blood pressure check, there's a right way and ...
The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) is a multi-center clinical trial that was performed from 2010 to 2015, and published in November 2015. [1]The objective of the trial was to identify whether, in patients with a systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 130 mm Hg or higher and an increased cardiovascular risk, but without diabetes, treating to a systolic blood pressure target of ...
The relationship between 'job strain,' workplace diastolic blood pressure, and left ventricular mass index. Results of a case-control study. JAMA 1990;263(14):1929-1935. Pickering TG, James GD, Boddie C, Harshfield GA, Blank S, Laragh JH. How common is white coat hypertension? JAMA. 1988;259(2):225-228. Pickering TG, Devereux RB.
Association between sleep duration and hypertension incidence: Systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. PLoS 1. Bedtime hypertension treatment improves cardiovascular risk reduction ...
Hypertension occurs in around 0.2 to 3% of newborns; however, blood pressure is not measured routinely in healthy newborns. [42] Hypertension is more common in high risk newborns. A variety of factors, such as gestational age, postconceptional age and birth weight needs to be taken into account when deciding if a blood pressure is normal in a ...
Exclusion criteria concern properties of the study sample, defining reasons for which patients from the target population are to be excluded from the current study sample. Typical exclusion criteria are defined for either ethical reasons (e.g., children, pregnant women, patients with psychological illnesses, patients who are not able or willing ...
Hypertension is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal [1] that was established in 1979. ... invited case-based reviews, recent study highlights, ...