Il controllo pressorio nell’insufficienza renale cronica: valutazione mediante monitoraggio ambulatorio.

Value of home blood pressure as predictor of target organ damage in mild arterial hypertension

Stato nutrizionale e citochine nell’insufficienza renale cronica

Relationships between 24 h blood pressure load and target organ damage in patients with mild-to-moderate essential hypertension.

Objective: To analyse the relationships between 24 h blood pressure load (the percentage of systolic/diastolic blood pressures exceeding 140/90 mmHg while awake and 120/80 mmHg during sleep) and some indices of hypertensive target organ involvement, independently of the mean level of 24 h blood pressure. Methods: One hundred and thirty patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension underwent 24 h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, ocular fundus examination, microalbuminuria assay and two-dimensional guided M-mode echocardiography. The study population was divided into subsets according to the systolic and diastolic 24 h blood pressure load values predicted from the regression equation relat…

Insufficienza renale cronica, ipertensione arteriosa e controllo pressorio: studio osservazionale di pazienti in terapia conservativa

Insulin resistance and glomerular hemodynamics in essential hypertension

Insulin resistance and glomerular hemodynamics in essential hypertension. Background Arterial hypertension is an important cause of end-stage renal failure. Insulin has been shown to modify glomerular hemodynamics in hypertensive subjects. The aim of this work, therefore, was to observe the relationships between renal hemodynamics and insulin resistance in arterial hypertension. Methods Sixty-two non-diabetic hypertensive patients and 25 healthy normal subjects were studied. Renal plasma flow and the glomerular filtration fraction were determined by renoscintigraphy and the insulin sensitivity by an oral glucose test. Results Renal plasma flow in hypertensive subjects was lower than expecte…

Correlazione di un marker di stress ossidativo con gli indici di disfunzione endoteliale in pazienti con ipertensione essenziale

In renal transplanted patients inflammation and oxidative stress are interrelated.

Introduction: The inflammatory state plays a well-documented role to cause oxidative stress, especially in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, wherein several cardiovascular risk factors are amplified by the coexistence of a microinflammatory state with increased oxidative stress. Methods: We measured serum concentrations of high sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP), tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα), 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α (8-iso-PGF2α-in vivo oxidative stress marker) in 15 chronic renal failure (CRF) and 15 transplant patients versus 15 healthy controls. Exclusion criteria were: age 65 years as well as a diagnosis of diabetes or cardiovascular diseases. We evaluated systolic (SBP) and …

Markers of endothelial activation and left ventricular hypertrophy in essential hypertension

Attivazione endoteliale: confronto tra ipertensione essenziale, sindrome metabolica e diabete mellito associati ad ipertensione

Relationships of “ambulatory” white coat effect with target organ damage in arterial hypertension

Nutritional status and endothelial factors in chronic renal failure

Valutazione dello stress ossidativo in pazienti ipertesi sottoposti a trapianto renale

Stato nutrizionale e citokine nell’Insufficienza Renale Cronica

Blood Pressure control by 24-hour Ambulatory Monitoring in Chronic Renal Failure.

Infiammazione e stress ossidativo: confronto tra pazienti con insufficienza renale cronica e pazienti sottoposti a trapianto renale