Ambulatory diastolic blood pressure: a marker of comorbidity in elderly fit hypertensive individuals?

Background: Masked diastolic hypotension is a new blood pressure (BP) pattern detected by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in elderly hypertensives. The aim of this study was to relate ABPM and comorbidity in a cohort of fit elderly subjects attending an outpatient hypertension clinic.

Methods: Comorbidity was assessed by Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) and CHADSVASc score.

Redescription of Paracles vulpina (Hbner, [1825]) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), with comments of the aquatic habit of larval instars.

The genus Paracles Walker, 1855 is one of the most diverse genera present in Arctiinae and some species have larvae with aquatic habits. Several larvae were found swimming in flooded areas in different grasslands and were bred to adults to identify the species: Paracles vulpina (Hbner, [1825]). The current knowledge of immature stages of this species is not useful to identify and discriminate from other species of Paracles.