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    High Heart Rate: A Predictor of Heart Failure in Healthy Subjects and a Risk Factor for Adverse Outcome in Patients with Heart Failure

    Heart failure (HF) is characterized by neurohumoral activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which is accompanied by increased heart rate (HR), myocardial contractility, and vascular tone. The compensator...

    Paolo Palatini in Hypertension and Heart Failure (2023)

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    Effects of Physical Activity on Hypertension of Youth

    Sedentary habits leading to obesity and metabolic disturbances are responsible for the rise in the prevalence of hypertension among adolescents and young individuals. Regular aerobic exercise has been shown to...

    Paolo Palatini in Exercise, Sports and Hypertension (2022)

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    Haemodynamics of Exercise Testing and Sports Activities

    Haemodynamic changes caused by exercise in human beings have been studied almost exclusively during laboratory tests. However, blood pressure (BP) recordings performed “in the field” have shown that the BP beh...

    Paolo Palatini in Exercise, Sports and Hypertension (2022)

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    In search of the optimal cuff for blood pressure measurement in people with severe obesity

    Paolo Palatini, Elisabetta Benetti, Claudio Fania, Andrea Ermolao in Hypertension Research (2021)

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    Arterial Distensibility, Physical Activity, and the Metabolic Syndrome

    Metabolic syndrome (MetS), a cluster of risk factors including central obesity, metabolic abnormalities, and arterial hypertension, is a well-known determinant of arterial wall remodeling and stiffening. The m...

    Francesca Saladini, Paolo Palatini in Current Hypertension Reports (2018)

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    Coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes

    Paolo Palatini in Diabetologia (2015)

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    Heart Rate and the Cardiometabolic Risk

    Resting heart rate is a well recognized marker of autonomic nervous system tone, and in many population studies has been found to be a significant correlate of blood pressure, increased body mass index, and me...

    Paolo Palatini in Current Hypertension Reports (2013)

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    Accuracy of a single rigid conical cuff with standard-size bladder coupled to an automatic oscillometric device over a wide range of arm circumferences

    Although the upper arm has the shape of a truncated cone, cylindrical cuffs and bladders are currently used for blood pressure (BP) measurement. The aims of this study were to describe upper arm characteristic...

    Elisa Bonso, Francesca Saladini, Ada Zanier, Elisabetta Benetti in Hypertension Research (2010)

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    The role of cardiac autonomic function in hypertension and cardiovascular disease

    Autonomic nervous system abnormality, clinically manifested as a hyperkinetic circulation characterized by elevations in heart rate, blood pressure, plasma norepinephrine levels, and cardiac output, has been r...

    Paolo Palatini, Stevo Julius in Current Hypertension Reports (2009)

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    Ambulatory blood pressure and cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease

    Diagnosis of hypertension is critically dependent on accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement, especially in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), in whom early antihypertensive treatment is imperative t...

    Paolo Palatini in Current Hypertension Reports (2008)