There has been much recent interest in the relationship between arterial stiffness and
cardiovascular disease. Pulse pressure and pulse wave velocity, surrogate measures of …

Falls are devastating events and are the largest contributor towards injury-related
hospitalization of older adults. Orthostatic hypotension (OH) represents an intrinsic risk factor …

There is a large market for blood pressure measuring devices not only in clinical medicine
but also among the public where the demand for self measurement of blood pressure is …

The arterial pulse-wave transit time can be measured between the ECG R-wave and the
finger pulse (r PTT), and has been shown previously to have a linear correlation with blood …

The arterial blood pressure (ABP) is one of the most important physiological parameters for
health monitoring. Most of the blood measurement devices in the market determine the ABP …

Objective: Does spending money on others (prosocial spending) improve the cardiovascular
health of community-dwelling older adults diagnosed with high blood pressure? Method: In …

There is evidence that depressive symptoms are associated with attenuated physiological
reactivity to active stressors. However, it is not known whether blunted reactivity in …

Hypertension is a major risk factor for a wide range of cardiovascular diseases and is
typically identified by measuring blood pressure (BP) at the brachial artery. Although such a …

Background and Purpose—Dynamic autoregulation has been studied predominantly in the
middle cerebral artery (MCA). Because certain clinical conditions, ie, presyncopal symptoms …

Continuous blood pressure monitoring is an essential prerequisite for any study on blood
pressure variability. Invasive procedures are no longer acceptable for research projects in a …