[24-hour heart rate profile in assessment of target organs in women with arterial hypertension].

Aim: To study relationships of 24-hour heart rate (HR) profile with involvement of the heart and kidney in women with arterial hypertension (AH).

Material: We examined women (n=273) aged 40-70 years with essential 2-3 degree AH.

Methods: Blood pressure (BP) measurements (8 times in a week), electrocardiography, echocardiography, ambulatory BP monitoring, complex laboratory diagnostics.

Association between ventricular repolarization and main cardiovascular risk factors.

Objective: To assess the association between QT interval, QT dispersion and main cardiovascular risk factors in Tallinn women population aged 50-69 years.

Design: A random sample of Tallinn population, 302 women underwent 12-lead rest ECG, echocardiography and laboratory tests. Corrected QT interval and QT dispersion were calculated.

[Dynamics of prevalence of arterial hypertension and other risk factors of development of cardiovascular diseases in female population of Tallin (10 year prospective study)].

Aim of the study was to assess dynamics of prevalence of arterial hypertension (AH) and main cardiovascular risk factors (RF) in a women population of Tallin during 10 years of follow up. In 2008-2009 we repeated measurements of arterial pressure (AP), electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and complex laboratory examinations in 314 participants of epidemiological study undertaken in 1999-2000. Most prevalent RF was hypercholesterolemia.

[Arterial hypertension, echocardiographically determined left ventricular hypertrophy and N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide levels in women population aged 56-65 years].

Aim of the study was to investigate relationship between arterial hypertension (AH), left ventricular myocardial mass (LVMM), and levels of N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide (pro-NT BNP) in a population of women inhabitants of Tallinn aged 56-65 years. Of 163 women aged 50-59 years who had participated in epidemiological study in 2000 in 132 measurement of arterial pressure (AP), electrocardiography, echocardiography, complex laboratory diagnostics including determination of pro-NT BNP were repeated in 2007. Most frequent risk factor was AH which was detected in 56.