[Quality of Blood Pressure Control in General Practice Using Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring - a Retrospective Monocentric Cross-Sectional Study].

Introduction:  The diagnosis and therapy of arterial hypertension is a continuous challenge in general practice. The aim of this study is to analyze the nature and effectiveness of blood pressure control in patients with known arterial hypertension in a primary care practice using office- (OBPM) and ambulatory (ABPM) blood pressure measurement.

Methods:  283 patients (90 % of all regularly treated patients having hypertension) were retrospectively examined for the achievement of the target blood pressure values in ABPM and OBPM in the past 1 to 2 years.

Advanced glycation end-products in anterior chamber aqueous of cataractous patients.

Purpose: To investigate whether the advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) pentosidine, N( epsilon )-(carboxymethyl)lysine (CML), and imidazolone are present in the aqueous of cataract patients and how AGE levels correlate to cataract type or the diabetic condition of the patient.

Setting: Departments of Ophthalmology and Internal Medicine, University of Jena, Jena, Germany.

Methods: Aqueous and serum samples from 77 cataractous patients (33 nondiabetics, 44 diabetics; 14 with dense posterior, 63 with nuclear cataracts) were investigated.