Left-ventricular hypertrophy is associated better with 24-h aortic pressure than 24-h brachial pressure in hypertensive patients: the SAFAR study.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that left-ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is better associated with aortic, than brachial, 24-h average blood pressure (BP) in individuals with hypertension.

Background: The office aortic BP is associated better with organ damage, such as LVH, than the office brachial BP; whether the 24-h average aortic BP associates better with LVH, than the 24-h average brachial BP, has never been tested.

Methods: Aortic ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) was performed with a novel validated oscillometric cuff-based BP recording device, also used for simultaneous brachial ABPM, and the application of pulse wave analysis method.

Patients with apparently nonfunctioning adrenal incidentalomas may be at increased cardiovascular risk due to excessive cortisol secretion.

Context: Although adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are associated with a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk (CVR) factors, it is not clear whether patients with nonfunctioning AI (NFAI) have increased CVR.

Objective: Our objective was to investigate CVR in patients with NFAI.

Design And Setting: This case-control study was performed in a tertiary general hospital.