Why continued surveillance? Intermittent blood pressure and heart rate abnormality under treatment
Several opinion leaders have monitored their blood pressure systematically a sufficient number of times a day for chronomic (time structural) analyses, from the time of encountering chronobiology until their death; they set an example for others who also may not wish to base treatment on single spot...
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Published in | Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy Vol. 59; no. Suppl 1; pp. S141 - S151 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article Conference Proceeding |
Language | English |
Published |
Paris
Elsevier SAS
01.10.2005
Elsevier |
Subjects | |
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Summary: | Several opinion leaders have monitored their blood pressure systematically a sufficient number of times a day for chronomic (time structural) analyses, from the time of encountering chronobiology until their death; they set an example for others who also may not wish to base treatment on single spotchecks in a health care office. Such self-measurements, while extremely helpful, were not readily feasible without a noteworthy interruption of activities during waking as well as of sleep. New, relatively unobtrusive instrumentation now makes monitoring possible and cost-effective and will save lives. Illustrative results and problems encountered in an as-one-goes self-survey by GSK, a physician-scientist, are presented herein. Both MESOR-hypertension and CHAT (circadian hyper-amplitude-tension) can be intermittent conditions even under treatment, and treatment is best adjusted based on monitoring, rather than “flying blind”. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Case Study-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-4 content type line 23 ObjectType-Report-1 ObjectType-Article-3 |
ISSN: | 0753-3322 1950-6007 |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0753-3322(05)80022-8 |