Interarm blood pressure measurement and the reference-arm assignment variability.

Objective: The arm with the higher blood pressure (BP) is assigned as the follow up arm for hypertensive patients (reference-arm). We evaluated the reproducibility of this assignment.

Methods: BP was measured simultaneously on both arms with a double cuff validated device in two visits separated <10 days (two sets of three readings per visit).

A world without the olfactory dimension.

This article aims to describe what is it like to perceive reality when suffering from congenital anosmia. Nevertheless, this objective entails a fundamental difficulty. Since I have never had the experience of olfaction, it seems natural to me to live in a world lacking the olfactory dimension; this subjective perception is the only one I know and in consequence it is difficult to describe.

Variability and concordance of Cornell and Sokolow-Lyon electrocardiographic criteria in hypertensive patients.

Aim: To assess the variability and concordance of left ventricular hypertrophy electrocardiographic (LVH-ECG) criteria.

Methods And Results: Convenience sampling of hypertensive subjects without coronary disease or bundle branch blocks. Two electrocardiograms (ECGs) were performed on each patient.