OBJECTIVES
This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of carotid atherosclerosis in a large group of asymptomatic hypertensive and normotensive adults and to examine its relation to the… (More)
BACKGROUND
Ambulatory blood pressure may be higher or lower than clinic blood pressure. Attention has focused on "white coat hypertension" (normal ambulatory blood pressure elevated in the clinic).… (More)
Mitral leaflet morphology in mitral valve prolapse (MVP) has been suggested to be prognostically important, but in vivo valvular morphology is incompletely described in patients with MVP or in normal… (More)
Although white coat hypertension may be present in 20% or more of hypertensive individuals, its prognostic significance is unknown. We compared prognostically relevant measures of target-organ damage… (More)
OBJECTIVES
The present study sought to determine whether conduit artery structure and function vary according to the pattern of left ventricular adaptation to hypertension.
BACKGROUND
Although left… (More)
Aging of the vasculature results in arterial stiffening and an increase in systolic and pulse pressures. Although pressure load is a stimulus for left ventricular hypertrophy, the extent to which… (More)
OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of the central arterial pressure waveform to left ventricular and carotid structure.
BACKGROUND
The pressure waveform in the central… (More)
We investigate the notion of H–subdifferential and H–normal map of a function u on the Heisenberg group, based on the sub–Riemannian structure of IH. We show that some properties of the… (More)