Estudios importantes sobre hipertension arterial de Cuba y el mundo

Ambulatory and home blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents: diagnosis of hypertension and assessment of target-organ damage

Por: Nikos Karpettas, Efthimia Nasothimiou, Anastasios Kollias, Adriani Vazeou y George S Stergiou.  Hypertension Research (2013) 36, 285–292.

The prevalence of elevated blood pressure in children and adolescents is more common than previously believed and often represents the early onset of essential hypertension, particularly in adolescents. The definition of hypertension in children is based on distribution criteria and normalcy tables that provide blood pressure percentiles for each measurement method (office, ambulatory and home) according to the individual’s age, gender and body size. Owing to the white coat and masked hypertension phenomena, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is indispensable for the diagnosis of hypertension in children. Home blood pressure monitoring in children has been less well studied, and at present, treatment decisions should not be based solely on such measurements.

Salt, the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system and resistant hypertension

Por: Tatsuo Shimosawa.  Hypertension Research (2013) 36, 657–660.

High salt intake is a risk for developing resistant hypertension, and even under triple therapy with diuretics, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor/angiotensin receptor blocker and a calcium channel blocker, the volume is occasionally not controlled. In such cases, a mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) antagonist additively lowers the circulating blood volume and blood pressure despite the lower circulating aldosterone level. This mechanism may be explained by the increase in the number of MR under some conditions or the activation of these receptors independent of aldosterone.

En esta sección les exponemos algunos artículos publicados sobre la hipertensión arterial.

De la Revista: American Journal of Hypertension

Non-Invasive Diagnostic Testing for Coronary Artery Disease in the Hypertensive Patient: Potential Advantages of a Risk Estimation-Based Algorithm

Por: Diana Chin, Allegra Battistoni,  Giuliano Tocci,  Jasmine Passerini,  Gianfranco Parati y  Massimo Volpe.  Am J Hypertens (2012) 25 (12): 1226-1235.

Evolution of Target Organ Damage by Different Values of Self-Blood Pressure Measurement in Untreated Hypertensive Patients

Por: Gabriel Coll-de-Tuero, Marc Saez, Carmen Roca-Saumell, Antonio Rodriguez-Poncelas, Pilar Franco,  Antoni Dalfó, Laia Calvó-Perxas,  Antonio Pose-Reino y Joan Bayó-Llibre.   Am J Hypertens (2012) 25 (12): 1256-1263.

Abdominal Obesity, Body Mass Index, and Hypertension in US Adults: NHANES 2007–2010

Por: Yechiam Ostchega, Jeffery P. Hughes, Ana Terry, Tala H.I. Fakhouri y Ivey Miller.  Am J Hypertens (2012) 25 (12): 1271-1278.

Feasibility of Home Blood Pressure Measurement in Elderly Individuals: Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Population-Based Sample

Por: Cécilia Cacciolati, Christophe Tzourio, Carole Dufouil,  Annick Alpérovitch y Olivier Hanon.  Am J Hypertens (2012) 25 (12): 1279-1285.