Long-term effect of masked hypertension management on cognitive functions in geriatric age: geriatric MASked hypertension and cognition follow-up study (G-MASH-cog MONITOR).

Objectives: Masked hypertension, defined as nonelevated clinic blood pressure with elevated out of clinic blood pressure, has been associated with increased cardiovascular events, mortality and cognitive impairment. No evidence exists regarding the effect of treating masked hypertension. In this study, we followed-up the patients in the G-MASH-cog study for 1 year and aimed to examine the effect of the management of masked hypertension on cognitive functions.

Is colchicine therapy effective in all patients with secondary amyloidosis?

Objective: Although colchicine is effective on prevention and regression of amyloidosis in many cases, rate of unresponsiveness to colchicine therapy is not too low. However, there is no sufficient data about which factors effect to response of colchicine therapy on regression of amyloidosis.

Materials And Methods: 24 patients with renal amyloidosis were enrolled into the study.