Obesity in Hypertensive Patients Is Characterized by a Dawn Phenomenon in Systolic Blood Pressure Values and Variability.

One of the causes of hypertension is excess weight gain, which can also affect the course of this disease. Both the diagnosis and management of hypertension commonly use ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; the results of which correlate more strongly with cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular death than office blood pressure monitoring. We evaluated blood pressure values and their variability from hour to hour to see if and when they differed between hypertensive patients with and without obesity.

Psychological distress among healthcare students in Poland from COVID-19 to war on Ukraine: a cross-sectional exploratory study.

Objectives: Healthcare students went through a rough time in March 2022 due to extreme changes in the educational system (moving from online to stationary learning) and Ukrainian-Russian war circumstances. Our study aims to update knowledge about psychological distress and its impact on healthcare students in Poland after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by intense and political instability in Europe.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study on healthcare students from Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland, from March to April 2022.