[Variability of cardiac rate in patients with obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea].

Background: Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is characterized by repeated breathing pauses caused by upper airway collapse during sleep, leading to intermittent hypoxemia, sleep fragmentation and autonomic dysfunction. The gold standard for the treatment of OSAHS is ventilation with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP).

Aim: To study the effect of CPAP on autonomic dysfunction in patients OSAHS, by assessing the heart rate variability (HRV) parameters before the initiation of CPAP and under CPAP during the first week and at 3 months.

[Clinical and paraclinical features in diabetic patients cholecystectomized for gallstones].

Unlabelled: Gallstones and diabetes mellitus represent a major economic burden especially when surgical treatment is involved.

Aim: The purpose of our study is to identify particular laboratory, imaging and pathological aspects that correlate with gallstones in diabetic patients that undergo cholecystectomy.

Material And Method: This retrospective study enrolled 234 subjects diagnosed and treated through cholecystectomy for gallstones during 01.

[Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in elderly].

Aim: Comparison of blood pressure values measured by two methods.

Material And Method: 94 hypertensive patients (66 women and 28 men in relation to 2.36/1) were assessed classically and also by ABPM.

[Metabolic profile of patients with cholesterol gallstone disease].

Unlabelled: Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors as well as associated co morbidities, including cholesterol gallstones disease.The aim of our study is to prove the association between metabolic syndrome and cholesterol gallstones, to identify the main risk factors for this association and to trace the particularities of the metabolic syndrome in such patients.

Material And Method: Our cohort study enrolled 449 subjects, 312 patients diagnosed with metabolic syndrome and gallstones or cholecystectomy (group 1) and 137 patients diagnosed only with metabolic syndrome (group 2), hospitalized in the Respiratory Rehabilitation Medical Clinic between 2007-2009.

[Home control of high blood pressure].

Unlabelled: Control of blood pressure is far from satisfactory, reaching approximately 13% in Romania according the SEPHAR study.

Aim: Assessment of blood pressure control in elderly by blood pressure monitoring at home.

Material And Method: 64 hypertensive patients (36 women and 28 men) with mean age of 76.