1. Weather-Related Changes in 24-Hour Blood Pressure Profile
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Gabriele Panci, Gianfranco Parati, Grzegorz Bilo, Gianluca Caldara, Alessia Giglio, Laura Lonati, Gian Franco Gensini, Camilla Lumachi, Iacopo Bertolozzi, Marco Morabito, Pietro Amedeo Modesti, Giampiero Maracchi, Giuseppe Mancia, Luciano Massetti, Simone Orlandini, Modesti, P, Morabito, M, Bertolozzi, I, Massetti, L, Panci, G, Lumachi, C, Giglio, A, Bilo, G, Caldara, G, Lonati, L, Orlandino, S, Maracchi, G, Mancia, G, Gensini, G, and Parati, G
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Aging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.drug_class ,Climate ,Blood Pressure ,Nocturnal ,Heart Rate ,Internal medicine ,Heart rate ,Prevalence ,Internal Medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,Circadian rhythm ,Antihypertensive drug ,Weather ,Antihypertensive Agents ,Aged ,Morning ,business.industry ,Temperature ,Hypertension management ,Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory ,Middle Aged ,blood pressure monitoring, ambulatory, hypertension, aging ,Circadian Rhythm ,Surgery ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Blood pressure ,Hypertension ,Ambulatory ,Cardiology ,blood pressure monitoring ,ambulatory ,MED/09 - MEDICINA INTERNA ,business - Abstract
A downward titration of antihypertensive drug regimens in summertime is often performed on the basis of seasonal variations of clinic blood pressure (BP). However, little is known about the actual interaction between outdoor air temperature and the effects of antihypertensive treatment on ambulatory BP. The combined effects of aging, treatment, and daily mean temperature on clinic and ambulatory BP were investigated in 6404 subjects referred to our units between October 1999 and December 2003. Office and mean 24-hour systolic BP, as well as morning pressure surge, were significantly lower in hot (>90th percentiles of air temperature; 136±19, 130±14, and 33.3±16.1 mm Hg; P P P P
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- 2006
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