Target organ damage and ambulatory blood pressure in stage I hypertension. The Hypertension and Ambulatory Recording Venetia Study.

According to recent international guidelines the decision on whether to treat young subjects during the early phase of hypertension should be based not only on their office blood pressure but also on their ambulatory blood pressure and whether target organ damage has occurred. Few data on the prevalence of hypertensive complications in young subjects with mild hypertension are available. In the Hypertension and Ambulatory Recording Venetia Study (HARVEST), a multicenter trial conducted in northeast Italy, the percentage of young borderline-to-mild hypertensive subjects with echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy was 4.

Prevalence and clinical correlates of microalbuminuria in stage I hypertension. Results from the Hypertension and Ambulatory Recording Venetia Study (HARVEST Study).

The objective of the present study was to examine the association between albumin excretion rate (AER) and office and ambulatory blood pressures (BP), and other recognized cardiovascular risk factors in stage I hypertension. The study was carried out in 870 never-treated 18- to 45-year-old hypertensives (628 men, 242 women). Office and ambulatory BP, 24-h urinary collection for AER assessment, and echocardiographic left ventricular mass (n = 587) were obtained.

[Pordenone study: HDL-cholesterol and obesity indexes in the young].

Background: In 1987, ten years after the first observation, we performed the follow-up of the subjects included in the "Pordenone Study on the precursors of atherosclerosis in childhood".

Methods: The anthropometric, biologic and anamnestic indicators of coronary risk were evaluated. The W.

[The Pordenone study on the precursors of atherosclosis in childhood. A 10-year follow-up. Cigarette smoking].

We have studied smoking habit in the sample enrolled in the ten year follow-up of the "Pordenone Study on the Precursors of Atherosclerosis in Childhood". The response rate at ten year follow-up was very high (about 90%). Prevalence of smoking is 45.