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J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich)
January 2025
Department of Geriatrics, Medical Center on Aging of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
The aim of this study was to explore whether 24-h ambulatory central (aortic) blood pressure (BP) has an advantage over office central aortic BP in screening for hypertension-mediated target organ damage (HMOD). A total of 714 inpatients with primary hypertension and the presence of several cardiovascular risk factors or complications involving clinical HMOD were enrolled. Twenty-four hour central aortic BP was measured by means of a noninvasive automated oscillometric device (Mobil-O-Graph).
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January 2025
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Institute of Cardiology, The St. John Paul II Hospital, Kraków, Poland.
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich)
January 2025
Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has recently been recognized as a novel biomarker associated with various cardiovascular conditions. This study aims to investigate the relationship between RDW and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) in a southern Chinese population. A total of 4916 patients were initially enrolled from the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University between January 2016 and December 2022.
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January 2025
Department of Women and Children's Health, Harris Preterm Birth Research Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Background: Induction of labour (IOL) is a common obstetric intervention in the UK, affecting up to 33% of deliveries. IOL aims to achieve a vaginal delivery prior to spontaneous onset of labour to prevent harm from ongoing pregnancy complications and is known to prevent stillbirths and reduce neonatal intensive care unit admissions. However, IOL doesn't come without risk and overall, 20% of mothers having an induction will still require a caesarean section birth and in primiparous mothers this rate is even higher.
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January 2025
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Jinan Second People's Hospital of Shandong Province (Jinan Eye Hospital), No. 148, Jingyi Road, Jinan, 250022, Shandong, China.
Infection with H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori) is the most prevalent human infection worldwide and is strongly associated with many gastrointestinal disorders, including gastric cancer. Endoscopy is mainly used to diagnose H.
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