Sfoglia per Soggetto "Blood Pressure"

Accuracy of a Newly-Introduced Oscillometric Device for the Estimation of Arterial Stiffness Indices in Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis: A Preliminary Validation Study

Vaios V., Georgianos P.I., Pikilidou M.I., Eleftheriadis T., Zarogiannis S., Papagianni A., Zebekakis P.E., Liakopoulos V. (2018)

The aim of the present study was to compare the aortic systolic blood pressure (aSBP), heart-rate-adjusted augmentation index (AIx75), and pulse wave velocity (PWV) obtained using the Mobil-O-Graph (IEM, Stolberg, Germany) ...

Age dependence of brachial cuff-based ambulatory PWV in end-stage kidney disease patients undergoing long-term peritoneal dialysis

Vaios V., Georgianos P.I., Vareta G., Divanis D., Dounousi E., Eleftheriadis T., Papagianni A., Zebekakis P.E., Liakopoulos V. (2022)

Background: The newly introduced device Mobil-O-Graph (IEM, Stolberg, Germany) combines brachial cuff oscillometry and pulse wave analysis, enabling the determination of pulse wave velocity (PWV) via complex mathematic ...

Association of specific HLA phenotypes with left ventricular mass and carotid intima-media thickness in hypertensives

Diamantopoulos, E. J.; Andreadis, E. A.; Vassilopoulos, C. V.; Vlachonikolis, I. G.; Tarassi, K. E.; Chatzis, N. A.; Giannakopoulos, N. S.; Papasteriades, C. A. (2001)

The aim of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that the expression of certain HLA antigens may constitute a risk marker for cardiovascular hypertrophy in subjects with arterial hypertension. We examined 158 subjects ...

Associations between change in blood pressure and functional outcome, early events and death: Results from the Efficacy of Nitric Oxide in Stroke trial

Sandset E.C., Appleton J.P., Berge E., Christensen H., Gommans J., Krishnan K., Ntaios G., Phillips S., Pocock S., Sprigg N., Woodhouse L.J., Bath P.M. (2019)

Objectives:High blood pressure (BP) is associated with a poor outcome after acute stroke. Early reduction in BP may be associated with fewer early adverse events and deaths, and improved functional outcome.Methods:Analyses ...

Clinic and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring for the Detection of Ambulatory Hypertension among Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis

Vaios V., Georgianos P.I., Vareta G., Dounousi E., Dimitriadis C., Eleftheriadis T., Papagianni A., Zebekakis P.E., Liakopoulos V. (2019)

The International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis recommends that adequate blood pressure (BP) assessment among patients on peritoneal dialysis should at least include measurements performed once-weekly at home and at each ...

Continuing versus Stopping Prestroke Antihypertensive Therapy in Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Subgroup Analysis of the Efficacy of Nitric Oxide in Stroke Trial

Krishnan K., Scutt P., Woodhouse L., Adami A., Becker J.L., Cala L.A., Casado A.M., Chen C., Dineen R.A., Gommans J., Koumellis P., Christensen H., Collins R., Czlonkowska A., Lees K.R., Ntaios G., Ozturk S., Phillips S.J., Sprigg N., Szatmari S., Wardlaw J.M., Bath P.M., ENOS Investigators (2016)

Background and purpose More than 50% of patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are taking antihypertensive drugs before ictus. Although antihypertensive therapy should be given long term for secondary prevention, ...

Effect of Glyceryl Trinitrate on Hemodynamics in Acute Stroke: Data from the ENOS Trial

Appleton J.P., Woodhouse L.J., Bereczki D., Berge E., Christensen H.K., Collins R., Gommans J., Ntaios G., Ozturk S., Szatmari S., Wardlaw J.M., Sprigg N., Rothwell P.M., Bath P.M. (2019)

Background and Purpose - Increased blood pressure (BP), heart rate, and their derivatives (variability, pulse pressure, rate-pressure product) are associated with poor clinical outcome in acute stroke. We assessed the ...

Effect of liraglutide on ambulatory blood pressure in patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Liakos A., Lambadiari V., Bargiota A., Kitsios K., Avramidis I., Kotsa K., Gerou S., Boura P., Tentolouris N., Dimitriadis G., Tsapas A. (2019)

Aims: To assess the effect of liraglutide on 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate in patients with hypertension (pre- and stage 1 hypertension) and inadequately controlled Type 2 diabetes (glycated haemoglobin ...

The Effect of Posture on Intraocular Pressure and Systemic Hemodynamic Parameters in Treated and Untreated Patients with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

Katsanos A., Dastiridou A.I., Quaranta L., Rulli E., Riva I., Dimasi V., Tsironi E.E., Weinreb R.N. (2017)

Purpose: To assess intraocular pressure (IOP), systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial blood pressure (SBP, DBP, MAP) changes in the sitting, supine, and 20° head-down (Trendelenburg) position in treated (tPOAG) and untreated ...

The Effect of Whole-Body Cryostimulation in Healthy Adults: Whole-Body Cryostimulation According to Gender and Smoking Status

Zakynthinos G.E., Stavrou V.T., Malli F., Papathanasiou I.V., Zakynthinos E., Gourgoulianis K.I., Kalabakas K., Karagiannis D., Basdekis G. (2021)

Introduction: Whole-body cryostimulation (WBC) refers to the therapeutic application of extremely cold dry air for a short period of time. The method has beneficial results in various diseases as well as the recovery of ...

Epidemiology of Hypertension among Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis Using Standardized Office and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Recordings

Vareta G., Georgianos P.I., Vaios V., Sgouropoulou V., Roumeliotis S., Georgoulidou A., Dounousi E., Eleftheriadis T., Papagianni A., Balaskas E.V., Zebekakis P.E., Liakopoulos V. (2022)

Introduction: Prior studies conducted in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in the late 1990s provided considerably variable estimates of the prevalence and control of hypertension. The present study aimed to investigate ...

Exaggerated haemodynamic and neural responses to involuntary contractions induced by whole-body vibration in normotensive obese versus lean women

Dipla K., Kousoula D., Zafeiridis A., Karatrantou K., Nikolaidis M.G., Kyparos A., Gerodimos V., Vrabas I.S. (2016)

New Findings: What is the central question of this study? In obesity, the exaggerated blood pressure response to voluntary exercise is linked to hypertension, yet the mechanisms are not fully elucidated. We examined whether ...

Habitual snoring and blood pressure (multiple letters)

Ng, D. K.; Kwok, K. L.; Chan, C. H.; Leung, L. C.; Kaditis, A. G.; Alexopoulos, E. I.; Kostadima, E.; Kaditis, D. G.; Pastaka, C.; Zintzaras, E.; Gourgoulianis, K. (2005)

Health-Promoting Effects of a Concurrent Workplace Training Program in Inactive Office Workers (HealPWorkers): A Randomized Controlled Study

Karatrantou K., Gerodimos V., Manouras N., Vasilopoulou T., Melissopoulou A., Mesiakaris A.F., Theodorakis Y. (2020)

Purpose: To the best of our knowledge, no previous study has examined the health-promoting effects of a daily supervised concurrent workplace training program in inactive office workers. The main objective of this study ...

Hypertension in chronic kidney disease: Novel insights

Duni A., Dounousi E., Pavlakou P., Eleftheriadis T., Liakopoulos V. (2020)

Management of arterial hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains a major challenge due to its high prevalence and associations with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CKD progression. Several clinical ...

Impact of flavonols on cardiometabolic biomarkers: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled human trials to explore the role of inter-individual variability

Menezes R., Rodriguez-Mateos A., Kaltsatou A., González-Sarrías A., Greyling A., Giannaki C., Andres-Lacueva C., Milenkovic D., Gibney E.R., Dumont J., Schär M., Garcia-Aloy M., Palma-Duran S.A., Ruskovska T., Maksimova V., Combet E., Pinto P. (2017)

Several epidemiological studies have linked flavonols with decreased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, some heterogeneity in the individual physiological responses to the consumption of these compounds has ...

Intra- A nd inter-observer reliability of anthropometric measurements and blood pressure in primary schoolchildren and adults: The Feel4Diabetes-study

Androutsos O., Anastasiou C., Lambrinou C.-P., Mavrogianni C., Cardon G., Van Stappen V., Kivelä J., Wikström K., Moreno L.A., Iotova V., Tsochev K., Chakarova N., Ungvári T., Jancso Z., Makrilakis K., Manios Y. (2020)

Background: Feel4Diabetes was a large-scale, multicenter lifestyle intervention aiming to prevent type 2 diabetes among families from vulnerable population groups in six European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, ...

It is safe to use transdermal glyceryl trinitrate to lower blood pressure in patients with acute ischaemic stroke with carotid stenosis

Appleton J.P., Woodhouse L.J., Belcher A., Bereczki D., Berge E., Caso V., Chang H.M., Christensen H.K., Collins R., Gommans J., Laska A.C., Ntaios G., Ozturk S., Sare G.M., Szatmari S., Wang Y., Wardlaw J.M., Sprigg N., Bath P.M. (2019)

Background There is concern that blood pressure (BP) lowering in acute stroke may compromise cerebral perfusion and worsen outcome in the presence of carotid stenosis. We assessed the effect of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) ...

Management of blood pressure and heart rate in chronic kidney disease

Kaltsatou A. (2017)

Background: Hypertension is considered a major health problem in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) as approximately 80-85% of CKD patients’ suffer from hypertension in the United States. Hypertension is the second ...

Muscle metaboreceptors modulate postexercise sweating, but not cutaneous blood flow, independent of baroreceptor loading status

Paull G., Dervis S., McGinn R., Haqani B., Flouris A.D., Kondo N., Kenny G.P. (2015)

We examined whether sustained changes in baroreceptor loading status during prolonged postexercise recovery can alter the metaboreceptors’ influence on heat loss. Thirteen young males performed a 1-min isometric handgrip ...