Publications by authors named "Eleftheria Alexaki"
Patient: Male, 70 • Male, 84.
Final Diagnosis: Appendiceal mucocele and pseudomyxoma peritonei.
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Introduction: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) forms the basis for the diagnosis of masked hypertension, a condition associated with increased target organ damage, and of white-coat hypertension, a common condition among subjects referred to hypertensive centers. The aim of this study was to compare the circadian blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) profiles in 1676 Greek subjects in order to identify the circadian patterns in these two categories of patient.
Methods: A total of 1676 subjects underwent 24-hour ABPM.
Aim: Personality traits, including hostility, play an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease. Moreover, abnormalities in blood pressure circadian pattern, such as a lack of nocturnal BP fall, are related with target organ damage and increased cardiovascular risk. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of hostility and its dimensions on dipping status, in newly diagnosed hypertensive patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recent studies have reported that prehypertension is associated with increased values of common carotid artery intima-media thickness (CCA-IMT). The aim of this study was to assess the impact of daytime ambulatory blood pressure (BP) levels on the association of prehypertension with CCA intima-media thickening in prehypertensive subjects.
Methods: A total of 807 subjects with office systolic BP<140 and diastolic BP<90mmHg, underwent 24h ambulatory BP (ABP) monitoring and carotid artery ultrasonographic measurements.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated the link between blood pressure (BP) variation and renal function in untreated hypertensive patients using 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring.
- A total of 803 patients were classified based on their estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), with those having lower eGFR showing significantly higher rates of systolic BP variation.
- Results indicate that the 24-hour rate of systolic BP variation is a significant independent factor associated with impaired renal function, suggesting that BP fluctuations should be considered alongside traditional BP measurements when evaluating target-organ damage in hypertensive patients.