Hypertension is a frequent, chronic, age-related disorder, which often entails debilitating
cardiovascular and renal complications. Blood pressure is usually noted in combination with …

The goal of this study was to review the origin, clinical relevance and treatment of pulse
pressure (PP). Elevated PP is increasingly being recognized as a risk factor for …

Arterial stiffness may predict coronary heart disease beyond classic risk factors. In a
longitudinal study, we assessed the predictive value of arterial stiffness on coronary heart …

Background—Current definitions of hypertension are based on levels of systolic blood
pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), but not on pulse pressure (PP). We …

The purpose of this study was to determine if ambulatory blood pressure measurement
predicted total and cardiovascular mortality over and beyond clinic blood pressure …

Background and Purpose—Pulse pressure is a stronger predictor of cardiovascular events
than systolic or diastolic blood pressure in large cohorts of French and North American …

Background It is uncertain whether ambulatory blood-pressure measurements recorded for
24 hours in patients with treated hypertension predict cardiovascular events independently …

The question of serum uric acid as an independent risk factor in subjects with essential
hypertension remains controversial. For up to 12 years (mean, 4.0) we followed 1720 …

We investigated the relationship between the day-night blood pressure (BP) dip and the
early morning BP surge in an cohort of 3012 initially untreated subjects with essential …

This article is a critical review of the available evidence on the prognostic value of
ambulatory blood pressure (ABP). Several event-based cohort studies have shown that ABP …