Fosca Quarti Trevano

TL;DR: The data show that the relationship of blood pressure to prognosis is complex and that phenomena other than 24-hour mean values are involved, and provide the first evidence that short-term erratic components of blood Pressure variability play a prognostic role.

TL;DR: CO is characterized by a sympathetic activation greater for magnitude than that detectable in PO, which appears not to be related to gender or to baroreflex mechanisms but rather to metabolic factors, i.e. to the greater insulin resistance characterizing CO.

TL;DR: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its relationship with daily life blood pressure, cardiac damage, and prognosis were determined in 2013 subjects from a Northern Italian population aged 25 to 74 years as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The data demonstrate that the sympathetic activation of obesity occurs independently in obstructive sleep apnea, and show that this condition exerts sympathostimulating effects independent of body weight, and that the obstructiveSleep apnea–dependent and –independent sympathostIMulation contribute to the overall adrenergic activation of the obese state.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that, in obese hypertensive individuals, treatment with candesartan cilexetil has an antihypertensive effect similar to that of HCTZ, which improves insulin sensitivity and exerts sympathoinhibitory effects.