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Open AccessThe role of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in enhancing medication adherence among patients with newly diagnosed hypertension: an analysis of the National Health Insurance cohort database
Improving adherence to antihypertensive medication (AHM) is a key challenge in hypertension management. This study aimed to assess the impact of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) on AHM adherence.
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Open AccessSex differences of sequential changes in coronary blood flow and microvascular function in patients with suspected angina
This study evaluated the sex differences of sequential changes in coronary blood flows and microvascular function in patients with suspected angina but with no obstructed coronary arteries.
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Open AccessArterial stiffness and hypertension
Arterial stiffness and hypertension are closely related in pathophysiology. Chronic high blood pressure (BP) can lead to arterial wall damage by mechanical stress, endothelial dysfunction, increased inflammati...
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Open AccessResistant hypertension: consensus document from the Korean society of hypertension
Although reports vary, the prevalence of true resistant hypertension and apparent treatment-resistant hypertension (aTRH) has been reported to be 10.3% and 14.7%, respectively. As there is a rapid increase in ...
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Open AccessReal-World Effectiveness and Safety of a Single-Pill Combination of Olmesartan/Amlodipine/Hydrochlorothiazide in Korean Patients with Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Patients with hypertension and additional cardiovascular risk factors pose a challenge by requiring more intensive blood pressure (BP) control. Single-pill combination (SPC) therapy can benefit these patients ...
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Open AccessStandardized protocol of blood pressure measurement and quality control program for the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement is crucial for hypertension detection and management. The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) assesses the health of Koreans using represen...
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Open AccessAssociation between the number of pregnancies and cardiac target organ damages: a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Korean women’s chest pain registry (KoROSE)
Pregnancy increases long-term cardiovascular risk after childbirth, but the mechanisms are unclear. This study was performed to investigate the association between the number of pregnancies and several cardiac...
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Open AccessArterial stiffness and its associations with left ventricular diastolic function according to heart failure types
Little is known about the characteristics of arterial stiffness in heart failure (HF). This study was performed to compare the degree of arterial stiffness and its association with left ventricular (LV) diasto...
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Open AccessThe 2022 focused update of the 2018 Korean Hypertension Society Guidelines for the management of hypertension
Hypertension is the leading cause of death in human being, which shows high prevalence and associated complications that increase the mortality and morbidity. Controlling blood pressure (BP) is very important ...
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Agreement of two vendor-independent strain analysis software platforms in assessing left ventricular global longitudinal strain
The new version of EchoPAC platform was recently developed by General Electronics (GE) to provide ‘vendor-independent’ full-myocardial-layer left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (LV-GLS). The agree...
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Diuretics versus others for long-term clinical outcomes as first-line antihypertensive medications: analysis of national real-world database
Although several large trials that included African American patients with hypertension have demonstrated the superiority of diuretics as an initial monotherapy, its applicability to other ethnicities remains ...
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Open AccessAssociations between measurements of central blood pressure and target organ damage in high-risk patients
It is not well-known which components of central blood pressure (CBP) are more influential to target organ damage (TOD). This study aimed to determine the relationship between CBP measurements and various type...
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Clinical factors associated with reduced global longitudinal strain in subjects with normal left ventricular ejection fraction
Characteristics of subjects with reduced GLS but no overt left ventricular dysfunction have been poorly characterized. We sought to find clinical factors associated with reduced GLS despite having normal LVEF....
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Prognostic value of arterial stiffness according to the cardiovascular risk profiles
It is not clear whether the influence of arterial stiffness depends on the subject’s cardiovascular risk status. This study was performed to assess the prognostic value of arterial stiffness according to diffe...
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Association of arterial stiffness with the histological severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Although arterial stiffness has been reported to be associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), previous studies have relied only on noninvasive assessments for the diagnosis of NAFLD. This study...
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Open AccessBlood pressure levels and cardiovascular risk according to age in patients with diabetes mellitus: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Little is known about age-specific target blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The aim of this study was to determine the BP level at the lowest cardiovascular risk of hype...
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Echocardiographic parameters determining cardiovascular outcomes in patients after acute ischemic stroke
Previous studies have focused on only 1 or 2 echocardiographic parameters as prognostic markers in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). A total of 900 patients with AIS who underwent transthoracic echoca...
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Open AccessThe comparison of the impact of arterial stiffness and central pressure on left ventricular geometry and diastolic function
This study was performed to compare the associations of brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) and central blood pressure (CBP) measurements with left ventricular (LV) geometry and diastolic function.
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Open AccessAssociation between dental health and obstructive coronary artery disease: an observational study
The association between dental health and coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a topic of debate. This study aimed to investigate the association between dental health and obstructive CAD using multiple denta...
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Association between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and parameters of target organ damage in patients undergoing coronary angiography
Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), metabolically active visceral fat, is easily measurable using transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). This study aimed to clarify the relationship between EAT thickness and param...
