Ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring in clinical practice

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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring could be used to determine whether people who have white-coat hypertension actually have hypertension. White-coat hypertension means the person only has high blood pressure when it is measured in a medical office. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring uses equipment that people can use at home to measure their blood pressure frequently throughout the day and night. If ambulatory monitoring shows normal blood pressure, the patient would not have to take antihypertensive drugs.

Cooking, Diagnosis, Ambulatory medical care, Ambulatory care, Patient monitoring, Physiologic monitoring, Cookery for hypertensives

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Seasonal changes in blood pressure in patients with end-stage renal disease treated with hemodialysis

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Weather appears to affect blood pressure in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Researchers analyzed the effect of seasonal temperature variations on daily blood pressure measurements in 53 hemodialysis patients over a period of three years. Blood pressure was lowest in the summer and highest in the winter. This seasonal variation was apparent during the entire three-year study.

Reports, Environmental aspects, Blood pressure, Seasonal variations (Diseases)

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Beating high blood pressure with low-sodium DASH

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The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) study shows that lowering salt intake and eating a healthy diet can benefit people who don't have hypertension as well as those who do. It may also have other benefits such as reducing the incidence of heart disease even in people who have a family history of heart disease.

Health aspects, Editorial, Diet therapy, Salt-free diet, Sodium restricted diet

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