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Open AccessUse of non-invasive respiratory supports in high-intensity internal medicine setting during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency in Italy: a multicenter, real-life experience
During the first two waves of the COVID-19 emergency in Italy, internal medicine high-dependency wards (HDW) have been organized to manage patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF). There is heterogeneous ...
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Ascending aorta dilatation is associated to hard cardiovascular events, follow-up from multicentric ARGO-Perspective project
Aortic root dilatation has been proposed as hypertension-mediated organ damage (HMOD). Nevertheless, the role of the aortic root dilatation as a possible additional HMOD is still unclear since studies conducte...
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Laboratory Indices/Bioimaging
As hypertension and diabetes mellitus (DM) are commonly associated, hypertensive individuals should be regularly screened for diabetes and vice versa, possibly on an annual basis. In patients with hypertension...
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Reversibility of Cardiac Remodeling in Hypertensive Patients with Heart Failure
In hypertensive patients, a fivefold to sixfold higher risk of develo** heart failure (HF) than healthy subjects has been reported. The lifetime heart failure risk grows directly proportional to blood pressu...
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Open AccessSubclinical HMOD in Hypertension: Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction
Arterial hypertension represents an important risk factor for the development of cardiac, vascular and renal events, predisposing to heart failure, acute coronary syndromes, peripheral artery disease, stroke, ...
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Open AccessClusters of risk factors in metabolic syndrome and their influence on central blood pressure in a global study
The effect of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and clusters of its components on central blood pressure (CBP) has not been well characterized. We aimed to describe the effect of MetS and clusters of its components on...
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Open AccessReduction of High Cholesterol Levels by a Preferably Fixed-Combination Strategy as the First Step in the Treatment of Hypertensive Patients with Hypercholesterolemia and High/Very High Cardiovascular Risk: A Consensus Document by the Italian Society of Hypertension
The primary and secondary prevention strategies of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) largely rely on the management of arterial hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, two major risk factors possib...
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Left atrial volume indexed for height2 is a new sensitive marker for subclinical cardiac organ damage in female hypertensive patients
Left atrial enlargement (LAe) is a subclinical marker of hypertensive-mediated organ damage, which is important to identify in cardiovascular risk stratification. Recently, LA indexing for height was suggested...
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Evaluation of Cardiovascular Risk in Patient with Primary Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
The study aimed to investigate, in patients with primary non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the presence of possible relationships between the degree of steatosis or fibrosis and the individual cardiov...
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Organ Damage
The impact of arterial hypertension on the structure and function of the heart, the central nervous system, the arterial vessels, and the kidney is responsible for subsequent mortality and morbidity. Evaluatio...
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Open AccessP111 Arterial Stiffness and Unattended and Attended BP Values
Measurement of “unattended” blood pressure (BP) may reduce or eliminate the “white coat effect”. Despite the possible advantages of this approach for BP measurement, only few studies analysed the relationship ...
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Open AccessP34 24-Hour Ambulatory Brachial Versus Aortic Systolic Blood Pressure: Relationship with Left Ventricular Mass Significantly Differs. Pooled Results from the International 24 Hour Aortic Blood Pressure Consortium (i24ABC)
There is evidence of a closer relation between 24 hour aortic systolic blood pressure (aSBP) and left ventricular mass (LVM) compared with 24 hour brachial SBP. However, sample sizes are relatively small and t...
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Vascular Aging and Disease of the Small Vessels
Cardiovascular events are the consequence of vascular damage at both the macro and microcirculatory level. The relationship between large stiffening artery and microvascular disease may be bidirectional, since...
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Chronic kidney disease in low-middle income populations: a call to action for screening and prevention
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Subclinical Vascular Damage in Prehypertension
The relationship between blood pressure (BP) and cardiovascular events is continuous and therefore the distinction between normotension and hypertension is arbitrary. Despite this, for practical reasons, this ...
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Regression Under Treatment of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Other Structural Alterations
Hypertension-induced mortality and morbidity are produced through the impact of increased blood pressure (BP) on the heart and other target organs. Evaluation of early damage (TOD) in these target organs is an...
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Open AccessP123 Unattended and Attended BP Values and Vasculare and Cardiac Organ Damage
It has been suggested that measurement of “unattended” blood pressure values may provide advantages over conventional BP measurement; some hypertension guidelines now suggest this approach as the preferred one...
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Open AccessP98 Age and Gender Differences iVariability of Wave Reflections Over 24 Hours: The International 24-Hour Ambulatory Aortic Blood Pressure Consortium (124ABC)
Wave reflection parameters predict cardiovascular events, but 24-hour profiles in large samples of healthy adults are unknown.
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Open AccessP104 Influence of Age and Gender on 24-Hour Variability of Central Blood Pressure: Findings from the International 24-Hour Ambulatory Aortic Blood Pressure Consortium (I24ABC)
Conventional brachial cuff BP is known to vary according to age and gender, but the influence of these factors on 24-hour ambulatory central BP is unknown. We sought to determine this in a large healthy popula...
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Hypertension and Organ Damage in Women
An adequate cardiovascular (CV) prevention strategy in women should consider the acknowledgement of sex-specific risk factors, such as hypertension in pregnancy, the concomitant presence of autoimmune diseases...
