Josep Redon

TL;DR: A Task Force on the prognostic significance of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring wrote this review in preparation for the Eighth International Consensus Conference and this synopsis was amended to account for opinions aired at the conference and to reflect the common ground reached in the discussions.

TL;DR: It seems some classes are superior to others in the prevention of new-onset atrial fibrillation and prevention of stroke and new classes of anticoagulants that do not require international normalized ratio monitoring have been introduced with promising results.

TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.

TL;DR: The authors have entered a period of rapidly increasing international inequality in stroke risk, where countries with low adult mortality in the latter 20th century extended their downward trend and countries with moderate as well as high mortality have on average seen unprecedented increases in death rates from stroke.

TL;DR: Clinical evidence in support of RDN as an effective interventional technique in patients with resistant hypertension is conflicting; a number of observational studies and three randomized, controlled trials support both safety and efficacy of this new therapy but some smaller studies and the large, single-blind, randomized, sham-controlled symplicity HTN-3 trial failed to show superiority ofRDN when compared with medical therapy alone.