Weekly variation of home and ambulatory blood pressure and relation between arterial stiffness and blood pressure measurements in community-dwelling hypertensives.

Although blood pressure (BP) is a major determinant of pulse wave velocity (PWV), some treatments have independent effects on BP and arterial stiffness. Although both ambulatory BP (ABP) and self-measured BP at home (HBP) have become important measures for the diagnosis and management of hypertension, single day recordings may be insufficient for a proper diagnosis of hypertension or the evaluation of treatment efficacy. To evaluate weekly variations in BP using 7-day HBP and 7-day ABP monitoring and to determine the relation between arterial stiffness and BP measurements in community-dwelling patients with hypertension.

Repeated ambulatory monitoring reveals a Monday morning surge in blood pressure in a community-dwelling population.

Background: Although weekly variations with a peak on Monday have been reported in the incidence of cardiovascular events, few studies have investigated weekly variations in blood pressure (BP).

Methods: One hundred and thirty-five community-dwelling subjects had 24-h ambulatory BP monitoring for 7 days. We calculated the mean awake, asleep, morning (during the first 3 h after awaking) BP, and morning BP surge (mean morning systolic BP minus mean asleep systolic BP) for each day.

Toward chronocardiologic and chronomic insights: dynamics of heart rate associated with head-up tilting.

As a step towards investigating the chronome (i.e. the inferential endpoints of chaos, trends and rhythms) of heart rate (HR) variability (HRV), we investigated whether the fractality or complexity of HRV is affected by a head-up tilting (HUT) test in the morning after an overnight fast.

Synchronous triple early cancers occurring in the stomach, colon and gallbladder.

We report an unusual case of synchronous triple early cancers of the stomach, gallbladder and sigmoid colon. The patient was a 70-year-old man. Gastrointestinal endoscopy at a medical check-up initially revealed early gastric cancer.

[Heart rate variability analysis and neurobehavioral function in community-dwelling older people aged 75 or older].

Background: Although heart rate variability (HRV) has been found to be associated with increased mortality in the elderly, the association of HRV and cognitive function and activity of daily living (ADL) capacity in the very elderly are not clear.

Methods: A sample of very elderly people (N = 138), aged 75 years and older, living in Urausu, Hokkaido, participated in this study. Participants were classified into three groups: normal, borderline, and dementia.

Seven-day (24-h) ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, self-reported depression and quality of life scores.

Objective: Effects of environmental conditions on blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) variations as putative factors underlying the onset of vascular events.

Methods: BP and HR were monitored around the clock for 7 days on 54 residents from Urausu, Hokkaido, Japan. Daytime, night-time, and 24-h means served to identify dippers and non-dippers.