Predictive value of clinic blood pressure variability for pressure changes during placebo in elderly hypertensives

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-20

  Wang, Ji Guang ^a   Liu, Guozhang ^a   Wang, Xianyan ^b   Jian, Ming ^a   Liu, Yuhui ^c   Chen, Yangchun ^d   Yan, Xifu ^e   Zhang, Hongxiu ^f   Birkenhäger, Willem H ^g   Staessen, Jan A ^h   Fagard, Robert ^h   Gong, Lansheng ^b   Liu, Lisheng ^a  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HENAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^e Hena Med University First Hospital   (China)

^f Hebei Academy of Governance   (China)

^g ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blood pressure variability; Isolated systolic hypertension; Older patients; Placebo effect

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

EID: 8244220341     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Gribbin B, Pickering TG, Sleight P, Peto R: Effect of age and high blood pressure on baroreflex sensitivity in man. Circ Res 1971, 29:424-431.
2. Korner PI, West MJ, Shaw J, Uther JB: 'Steady-state' properties of the baroreceptor-heart rate reflex in essential hypertension in man. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1974, 1:65-76.
3. Lindblad LE: Influence of age on sensitivity and effector mechanisms of the carotid baroreflex. Acta Physiol Scand 1977, 101:43-49.
4. Shimada K, Kitazumi T, Sadakane N, Ogura H, Ozawa T: Age-related changes of baroreflex function, plasma norepinephrine and blood pressure. Hypertension 1985, 7:113-117.
5. Parmer RJ, Cervenka JH, Stone RA: Baroreflex sensitivity and heredity in essential hypertension. Circulation 1992, 85:497-503.
6. Pickering TG, James GD, Boddie C, Harshfield GA, Blank S, Laragh JH: How common is white coat hypertension? JAMA 1988, 259:225-228.
7. Mancia G, Bertinieri G, Grassi G, Parati G, Pomidossi G, Ferrari A, et al.: Effects of blood pressure measurement by the doctor on patient's blood pressure and heart rate. Lancet 1983, ii:695-698.
8. O'Rourke M: Arterial stiffness, systolic blood pressure, and logical treatment of arterial hypertension. Hypertension 1990, 15:339-347.
9. Wang JG, Liu G, Wang X, Zhang S, Sun M, Pan X, et al.: Long-term blood pressure control in older Chinese patients with isolated systolic hypertension: a progress report on Syst-China trial. J Hum Hypertens 1996, 10:735-742.
10. Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly's Collaborative Group Coordinating Center: Systolic hypertension in the elderly: Chinese trial (Syst-China) - interim report Chin J Cardiol 1992, 20:270-275.
11. Oldham PD: A note on the analysis of repeated measurements of the same subjects. J Chron Dis 1962, 15:969-977.
12. Bland JM, Altman DG: Comparing methods of measurement: why plotting difference against standard method is misleading. Lancet 1995, 346:1085-1087.
13. Staessen JA, O'Brien ET, Amery AK, Atkins N, Baumgart P, De Cort P, et al.: Ambulatory blood pressure in normotensive and hypertensive subjects: results from an international database. J Hypertens 1994, 12 (suppl 7):S1-S12.
14. Huikuri HV, Pikkujamsa SM, Airaksinen KEJ, Ikaheimo MJ, Rantala AO, Kauma H, et al.: Sex-related differences in autonomie modulation of heart rate in middle-aged subjects. Circulation 1996, 94:122-125.
15. Coats AJS, Radaelli A, Clark SJ, Conway J, Sleight P: The influence of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring on the design and interpretation of trials in hypertension. J Hypertens 1992, 10:385-391.
16. Wolf S: The pharmacology of placebos. Pharmacol Rev 1959, 11:689-705.
17. Staessen JA, Thijs L, Clement D, Davidson C, Fagard R, Lehtonen A, et al.: The ambulatory blood pressure decreases on long-term placebo treatment in older patients with isolated systolic hypertension. J Hypertens 1994, 12:1035-1039.
18. Mancia G, Omboni S, Ravogli A, Parati G, Zanchetti A: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the evaluation of antihypertensive treatment: additional information from a large data base. Blood Press 1995, 4:148-156.
19. Staessen J, O'Brien E, Atkins N, Bulpitt CJ, Cox J, Fagard R, et al.: The increase in blood pressure with age and body mass index is overestimated by conventional sphygmomanometry. Am J Epidemiol 1992, 136:450-459.
20. Kannel WB, Sorlie P, Gordon T: Labile hypertension: a faulty concept? The Framingham Study. Circulation 1980, 61:1183-1187.
21. Mancia G, Ferrari A, Gregorini L, Parati G, Pomidossi G, Bertinieri G, et al.: Blood pressure variability in man: its relation to high blood pressure, age and baroreflex sensitivity. Clin Sci 1980, 59:401s-404s.
22. Sleight P: Role of the baroreceptor reflexes in circulatory control, with paticular reference to hypertension. Hypertension 1991, 18:III31-III34.
23. MacMahon S: Alcohol consumption and hypertension. Hypertension 1987, 9:111-121.