Issues and technology to assess circadian variability of blood pressure in hypertension.
Three problems remain to be solved to assess the circadian profile of blood pressure, and night dipper-non-dipper, day-night and morning rise of blood pressure in essential hypertension have been discussed. Both medical and bioengineering issues have been discussed to solve these important problems.
Tamura
K
K
2nd Department of Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Japan.
Kuroyanagi
R
R
Ikeda
Y
Y
Honma
H
H
Kohno
I
I
Ijiri
H
H
Nakamura
T
T
D000328:Adult; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000295:instrumentation; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000502:physiology*; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012984:Software