Robert Fagard

TL;DR: The classification of left ventricular hypertrophy in athletes as eccentric or concentric has to be considered as a relative concept, most likely related to the fact that training regimens and/or sports activities are not exclusively of the dynamic or static type but comprise both components to a variable extent.

TL;DR: Treating hypertension in very old patients reduces stroke and heart failure with no effect on total mortality with the most reasonable strategy associated with significant mortality reduction; thiazides as first-line drugs with a maximum of two drugs.

TL;DR: One 24 h recording is insufficient to fully characterize an individual's diurnal BP profile, as the distribution of the nocturnal BP fall is unimodal and the reproducibility of the ambulatory BP is satisfactory for the level of BP and for the presence of adiurnal BP rhythm, but not for the parameters of the diurnalBP curve.

TL;DR: The genetic variance of measured peak O2 uptake is significant and persists after adjustment for anthropometric characteristics, life-style factors, anaerobic energy generation, and mechanical efficiency.

TL;DR: The relationship between BP and overall CV risk had a similar pattern in diabetic and nondiabetic patients over a wide range of baseline and in-treatment BP values although, for the same systolic BP, a higher risk is observed in diabetic patients.