The past two to three decades have seen a steady increase in the prevalence of
hypertension in China, largely owing to increased life expectancy and lifestyle changes …

The most common method of clinical measurement of arterial blood pressure is by means of
the cuff sphygmomanometer. This instrument has provided fundamental quantitative …

Wytyczne dotyczące nadciśnienia tętniczego opublikowane w 2013 r. przez Europejskie
Towarzystwo Nadciśnienia Tętniczego (ESH) i Europejskie Towarzystwo Kardiologiczne …

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is being used increasingly in both clinical
practice and hypertension research. Although there are many guidelines that emphasize the …

However, an obesity-related increase in BP has not been documented in all studies. In the
Bogalusa Heart Study, which used the mean of 6 resting BP measurements instead of 2 or 3 …

Nowadays, real-time human motion sensing and pulse monitoring can provide significant
basis for health assessment and medical diagnosis. Nevertheless, it is still a big challenge to …

In previous studies, of which several were underpowered, the relation between
cardiovascular outcome and blood pressure (BP) variability was inconsistent. We followed …

We hypothesized that the dynamic relation between diastolic and systolic blood pressure
over 24 hours provides a measure of arterial stiffness and might, therefore, predict …

Arterial stiffness is increasingly recognized as an impor-tant prognostic index and potential
therapeutic target in patients with hypertension. It is closely linked to, but by no means …

Arterial pulse waves (PWs) such as blood pressure and photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals
contain a wealth of information on the cardiovascular (CV) system that can be exploited to …