Publications by authors named "Carla Andrea Facury Lopes"
Objective: To evaluate 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) for early detection of hypertension in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1).
Design: Patients underwent fundoscopy, albuminuria determinations, two repeated autonomic cardiovascular tests, heart rate (HR) variation during deep breathing and blood pressure (BP) variation during sustained handgrip. Twenty-four hour BP measurements were taken automatically by an oscillometric portable monitor.