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Researchers warned recently that doctor's office visits can cause patients to have a rise in blood pressure, saying it is far worse in someone who already has high levels. The "˜white-coat' effect, as it is being called, is due to patients becoming stressed by being in a doctor's office or a hospital. An Australian research team said that giving people a cuff to wear for one day is a good way for checking blood pressure. The cuff has also shown that external factors affect blood pressure...
Tossing and turning may affect results of nighttime blood pressure measurementA widely used test for measuring nighttime blood pressure may interfere with patients' sleep, thus affecting the results of the test, reports a study in an upcoming issue of Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN)."Blood pressure (BP), measured during sleep correlates better with heart attacks and strokes compared to blood pressure measured in the doctor's office," explains Rajiv...
Spot blood pressure readings in children with chronic kidney disease often fail to detect hypertension "“ even during doctor's office visits "” increasing a child's risk for serious heart problems, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and other institutions. A report of the findings appears online in the Journal of American Society of Nephrology.Researchers compared blood pressure measurements obtained during regular doctor visits to readings obtained via a special...
Undertreated children are at risk of developing heart diseaseMany children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who show normal blood pressure readings at the doctor's office have high blood pressure when tested at home, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The findings indicate that many CKD children are not appropriately treated for hypertension, which puts them at serious risk of developing heart disease.Hypertension...
A survey of American servicemen and women who reported experiencing multiple combat exposures were more likely to self-report high blood pressure than military members not exposed to combat, according to research reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.In a new population-based prospective study, researchers analyzed 36,061 service members, including a sub-group of 8,829 deployed in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2003.After a...
BANNOCKBURN, Ill., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Heart disease is the leading cause of death in men in the United States(1). Yet it's often not until the untimely passing of a celebrity from a cardiac event - such as Billy Mays or Tim Russert - that the issue is brought to the forefront of Americans' health and wellness routine. And even then, when there's a heightened focus on heart health, a recent survey(2) uncovered that only 14 percent of people would be inclined to start regularly...
 It is known that more intensive management of hypertension can improve blood pressure control and thus improve cardiovascular outcomes. However, there are several different systems of measuring the intensity of management of hypertension, and they have not been previously compared. If one system performs best, it would be important to use it to measure intensity of management for research and quality improvement purposes. Researchers from Boston University have compared different measures...
Children who have high blood pressure are more likely to have learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than children who are not hypertensive. They are also more likely to have a higher body mass index (BMI), an indicator of body fat.The University of Rochester Medical Center study, which was presented in abstract form at the Pediatric Academic Society meeting today in Baltimore, shows that children with hypertension are four times as likely to have a learning...
U.S. researchers say those incarcerated as youths may be at greater risk for high blood pressure. In addition, a heart condition associated with high blood pressure -- left ventricular hypertrophy -- was more common in those with a history of incarceration, 2 percent versus 0.6 of those never incarcerated. The study, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine, also found former inmates less likely to have access to regular medical care. Commonly cited factors -- such as drug/alcohol...
A U.S. researcher has linked hypertension in children with poorer thinking and working memory. The study, published in Journal of Pediatrics, found children with high blood pressure also were not as good as children with normal blood pressure when it comes to complicated goal-directed tasks and not as adept at planning. Children with both high blood pressure and obesity also were likely to have anxiety and depression. These results were very surprising to me, despite similar findings in...
