Conventional office blood pressure measurements and unattended automated office blood pressure compared with home self-measurement and 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

Objective: To assess whether automated office blood pressure (BP) (AOBP) measurement is a better method for measuring BP in the office than conventional techniques and an alternative to out-of-office BP measurements: home-self BP (HSBP) or ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM).

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 74 patients and compared AOBP with the conventional technique using a mercury sphygmomanometer and with both out-to-office BP measurements: HSBP of 7 days (three measurements in the morning, afternoon, and night) and daytime ABPM. In addition, we compared BP values obtained using HSBP and ABPM to determine their level of agreement.

The impact of body mass index on blood pressure measured with mercury sphygmomanometer in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Background: Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and overweight have more risk to develop changes in blood pressure that increase cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this study, the relationship between blood pressure (BP) with the body mass index (BMI) and the average of the last three measurements of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in patients with T1DM was determined.

Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in children and adolescents with T1DM with over a year since diagnosis.

Comparison of auscultatory and oscillometric BP measurements in children with obesity and their effect on the diagnosis of arterial hypertension.

Objective: The level of agreement between two blood pressure (BP) reading methods, auscultatory vs oscillometric, was examined using a mercury sphygmomanometer and an electronic device in children and adolescents with different levels of obesity. The readings were compared to determine their impact on the diagnosis of pre-hypertension/hypertension.

Methods: Blood pressure readings were taken in children with obesity (body mass index ≥ 95th percentile) and severe obesity (≥120% 95th percentile).

[Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and associated factors in children and adolescents with obesity].

Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity in children in Mexico are high, as well as the complications associated with their presence. The objective of this work was to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in obese children and adolescents attending a Hospital Clinic and identify the associated factors.

Methods: Cross sectional design with 120 children and adolescents; of either sex, with exogenous obesity and BMI > 2.

Simultaneous blood pressure measurement in both arms in hypertensive and nonhypertensive adult patients.

Background: When blood pressure (BP) is taken for the first time, it should be measured in both arms; follow-up measurements should be taken in the arm with the highest BP. However, in clinical practice, this recommendation is rarely followed.

Objective: Identify the degree of differences in BP between the right and the left arm in individuals with normal and high BP.

Differences and effects of medium and large adult cuffs on blood pressure readings in individuals with muscular arms.

Objective: This study analyzed systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) reading differences in individuals with muscular arms, using medium and large adult cuffs.

Materials And Methods: Resting blood pressures (BPs) were measured in bodybuilders competing at the Mexican National Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship. The means of two bilateral simultaneous arm BP measurements were obtained using two different cuff sizes, 12 cm (medium adult) and 16 cm (large adult).

Evaluation and effects of the Omron 725 CIC device for measuring blood pressure in a hypertension clinic.

Background: We compared the Omron 725 CIC device (Omron Healthcare Inc., Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA), which is designed to register the blood pressure on the arm, with a mercury sphygmomanometer. In addition, we evaluated the possible impact that this device might have on the decisions made in a hypertension clinic.

Extracutaneous sporotrichosis in a patient with liver cirrhosis.

We report an unusual case of disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis with oral mucous and tracheal involvement in a forty-year-old male with a history of heavy drinking and liver cirrhosis. We also review the literature and other similar published cases.

Effect of standard cuff on blood pressure readings in patients with obese arms. How frequent are arms of a 'large circumference'?

Objective: To measure the effect on blood pressure readings when a standard cuff is used on patients with arms of a large circumference, and to determine the frequency of arms of a large circumference.

Subjects: Blood pressures were taken in 120 subjects with an arm circumference greater than 33 cm. Also, the arm circumference was determined in 244 patients from a family health unit, and in 216 patients from a hypertension clinic.