Dysbiosis of gut microbiota (GM) has been involved in the pathophysiology of arterial hypertension (HT), via a putative role of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs). Its role in the circadian regulation of blood pressure (BP), also called “the dipping pro...
Background: Alpha-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists are widely used in the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) . Their effects on blood pressure (BP) patterns remain incompletely characterized. This study aimed to prospectively evaluate...
15 April 2020
Introduction: The circadian pattern of blood pressure is characterized by a physiological drop occurring after sleep onset. The alteration of this phenomenon (non-dipping, extreme dipping, or reverse dipping) is associated with an increased cardiovas...
30 November 2020
Introduction: The dipping phenomenon is a physiological drop in blood pressure (around 10–20%) during sleep and represents an event related to the circadian blood pressure trend. This phenomenon, in some cases, is characterized by some alterati...
Background and Objectives: Hypertensive heart disease, especially left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), is considered to be one of the main types hypertension-mediated organ damage. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine which method of measur...
Objectives: This study aims to show the distribution of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) rs1799752 (I>D) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism and angiotensin II receptor type 1 (AGTR1) rs5186 (A>C) gene polymorphism in adolescents with...
Background: Inflammation and high blood pressure (nondipping profile) during the rest/sleep period have been associated with an effect on the incidence of cardiovascular disorders and a more severe course in the ischemic cerebrovascular event. There...
Background and Objectives: Non-dipping blood pressure (BP) patterns are associated with increased cardiovascular risk, but their role in periprocedural myocardial infarction (PMI) during elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains...
Background/Objectives: Dental implant placement protocols including immediate (IIP) and delayed implant placement (DIP) are likely to affect bone tissue repair and regeneration after the surgery. Despite many benefits of IIP, it has remained unclear...
Background: In patients with essential hypertension, a non-dipping blood pressure pattern is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. However, background factors associating with such a blood pressure pattern remain unknown. Methods: Untreat...
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is present in 20–50% of cases with diabetes. The pathophysiology of DPN is not yet clear regarding hypertension (HTN). The aim of this study was to assess the association between the stages of DPN and HTN in...
We investigated lung-heart toxicity and mortality in 123 women with stage I-II breast cancer enrolled in 2007–2011 in a prospective trial of adjuvant radiotherapy (TomoBreast). We were concerned whether the COVID-19 pandemic affected the outcom...
The relationship between the morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) and cardiovascular risk is inconclusive. Previous studies have not taken into consideration dipping status in examining the MBPS and its associated factors. The aim was to examine facto...
Zero-voltage ride through (ZVRT) is the extreme case of low-voltage ride through (LVRT), which represents the optimal grid-connection capability of wind turbines (WTs). Enforcing ZVRT will improve the dynamic performance of WTs and therefore signific...
Current status of Bragg-edge/dip neutron transmission analysis/imaging methods is presented. The method can visualize real-space distributions of bulk crystallographic information in a crystalline material over a large area (~10 cm) with high spatial...
An impaired nocturnal decrease in diastolic blood pressure (DBP) increases the blood pressure (BP) load, which is a main factor in endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and arterial stiffness. We aimed to quantify some markers of oxidative stress...
Macronutrients (nitrogen—N; phosphorus—P; silicon—Si) play a crucial role in ocean surface waters stimulating the planktonic primary production; in fact, their concentrations are fundamental for the evaluation of the trophic status...
Background/Objectives: Increased blood pressure variability (BPV) was found in adults with primary (essential) hypertension (PH) and is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Our study aimed to analyze the relation between BPV and low-grade i...
Introduction: SGLT2 inhibitors reduce renal composite endpoints and proteinuria, yet RCTs uniformly show an acute eGFR dip within 2 weeks to 2 months after initiation. However, demographic and clinical predictors of an acute eGFR dip demonstrate cons...
Background: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a known predictor of target organ damage, cardiovascular disease and overall mortality. The aim of this study was to compare the PWV values in subjects with prediabetes, a non-dipper profile and arterial hyper...
Women with pre-gestational diabetes have a high rate of large for gestational age (LGA) babies compared to women without diabetes. In particular, there is a high rate of asymmetric LGA defined as ponderal index (PI) > 90th percentile for gestation...
Peritoneal ultrafiltration failure is a major complication of peritoneal dialysis and a common cause of technique failure often leading to hemodialysis. Chronic exposure to glucose-based dialysate contributes to inflammation, fibrosis, and peritoneal...
26 May 2020
Previous literature has reported that patients with diabetes in pregnancy (DIP) are at risk of developing antepartum depression but the results have been inconsistent in cohort studies. We conducted a systematic review and performed a meta-analysis t...
Background/Objectives: Pacifier use in infants has both beneficial and harmful implications, and dipping pacifiers in sweeteners is used by some parents to soothe infants. This study aimed to assess pacifier usage among mothers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabi...
Two-stage grid-forming (GFM) photovoltaic inverters leverage the dynamic characteristics of the DC-bus capacitor to emulate the inertia of synchronous generators. However, under conditions of drastic solar irradiance fluctuations or sudden increases...
The rapid evolution of insecticide resistance in Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) threatens effective pest management in key crops. This study characterized B. tabaci populations from cotton and tomato fields in Kashgar (September&...
Objective: Hepatic steatosis commonly coexists with cardiometabolic risk factors, yet circadian blood pressure patterns in adults with hepatic steatosis remain incompletely characterized. This study aimed to describe ambulatory blood pressure pattern...
Stroke occurrence is not randomly distributed over time but has circadian rhythmicity with the highest frequency of onset in the morning hours. This specific temporal pattern is valid for all subtypes of cerebral infarction and intracerebral hemorrha...
Several outcome-based prospective investigations have provided solid data which support the prognostic value of 24 h ambulatory blood pressure over and beyond cardiovascular traditional risk factors. Average 24 h, daytime, and nighttime blood pressur...
Background: Although DNA methylation in the gene promoters usually represses gene expression, the TERT hypermethylated oncological region (THOR) located 5′ of the hTERT gene is hypermethylated when hTERT is expressed in diverse cancer types, in...
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common hereditary kidney disorder, estimated to affect 1 in 1000 people. It displays a high level of variability in terms of onset and severity among affected individuals within the sam...
Safety status of artificial slopes is significant for the operation and maintenance of highway to mitigate the risk; thus, slope hazard identification is necessary. In order to realize large-area and low-cost application for regional highway, taking...
Secondary metabolites are particularly important to humans due to their pharmaceutical properties. Moreover, secondary metabolites are key compounds in climate change adaptation in long-living trees. Recently, it has been described that the domestica...
In Corozalito beach, Costa Rica, Olive Ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) nest both solitarily and in arribadas. The predation of solitary nests was monitored from 2008 to 2021, recording date, time, sector of the beach, zone, status of nest (pre...
Coastal ecosystems are attractive sites for tourism. In the central Pacific coast of Mexico in the La Boquita coastal system (LBCS), consisting of a beach and a coastal lagoon, the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model was implemented f...
Hop (Humulus lupulus L.) is a climbing plant that contains essential components for beer production. Although Brazil is the third-largest beer producer in the world, it still relies on imports to meet demand. Some hop varieties have already adapted t...
Bacterial adhesion to the surface of materials is the first step in biofilm formation, which will lead to conditions that may compromise the health status of patients. Recently, polydopamine (PDA) has been proposed as an antibacterial material. There...
The Baltic Sea is currently classified as ‘affected by eutrophication’. In this study, water exchanges and net phosphorus flows in the Archipelago Sea and through the Åland Sea from the Baltic proper was estimated with the aid of a...
Accurate quantification of immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels is vital for understanding immune status and diagnosing various medical conditions. Lateral flow assays (LFAs) offer rapid and convenient diagnostic tools, but their sensitivity has been a limi...
The function of free amino acids in protein synthesis, as a source of energy and unique roles in catabolism have been well studied in plant development but their function in postharvest fruit and vegetables has received little attention. This study e...
We have shown before that at least one intracellular proteolytic system seems to be at least as abundant in the peripheral blood lymphocytes of centenarians as in the same cells of young individuals (with the cells of the elderly population showing a...
The rapid development of the oil and gas industry has led to increasingly severe challenges for buried pipelines when crossing complex geological environments. Especially in fault zones induced by seismic action, the pipe–soil interaction mecha...
(1) Background: Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction is a non-motor feature in Parkinson’s disease with negative impact on functionality and life expectancy, prompting early detection and proper management. We aimed to describe the blood pressure pat...
Background/Objectives: Abnormal nocturnal dipping (ND) in diabetes mellitus is linked to adverse outcomes. Its association with vitamin D (VD), cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN), and diabetic kidney disease (DKD) remains unclear. We aim to ev...
Night shift work has been found to be associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. One of the underlying mechanisms seems to be that shift work promotes hypertension, but results have been variable. This cross-sectiona...
Children suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The early detection and diagnosis of subclinical CVD in pediatric CKD can reduce mortality later in life. Plasma factor 4 (PF4) is a chemokine rele...
A literature review of up-to-date methods to strengthen Ti/carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) hybrid joints is given. However, there are little or no studies on Ti/CFRP joints by carbon fiber plug insert, which takes advantage of the extremely hi...
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) (canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, empagliflozin, and ertugliflozin), although initially developed as glucose-lowering drugs, provide significant beneficial effects on cardiorenal outcomes, including h...
Limited evidence exists on the effects of maternal dietary patterns on birth weight, and most studies conducted so far did not adjust their findings for gestational age and sex, leading to potentially biased conclusions. In the present study, we appl...
Growing evidence suggests that abnormal diurnal blood pressure rhythms may be associated with many adverse health outcomes, including increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. This study evaluates methodological aspects of research on bidi...
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