Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, and Hypertension among Patients with Diabetes
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Endocrinology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 397
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hypertension; diabetes; obesity; metabolic syndrome; echocardiohgraphy; speckle tracking; 3D echocardiography; cardiac magnetic resonancecardiography; cardiac magnetic resonance
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Interests: hypertension; diabetes; metabolic syndrome; obesity; sleep apnea syndrome; echocardiography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diabetes represents one of the most important and prevalent cardiovascular risk factors in the global population. Heart rate and heart rate variability have great importance and represent significant predictors of cardiovascular and total morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients. Arterial hypertension and diabetes have a synergistic negative effect on cardiovascular remodeling and cardiovascular outcomes. Therefore, the cut-off blood pressure value for the introduction of antihypertensive therapy as well as target blood pressure in diabetic patients remain matters of debate. Comprehensive cardiac assessment that includes 24-h ECG, 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and echocardiographic examination is now available for the evaluation of cardiac damage in diabetic patients. Using 24-h ECG, one can obtain heart rate variability, which is a useful non-invasive tool for the evaluation of the autonomic nervous system, which has a key role in adverse outcomes in diabetic patients. Furthermore, 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides data regarding daytime, nighttime, and 24-h blood pressure values, as well as circadian blood pressure patterns (dipping and non-dipping). All these values have particular importance in diabetic patients.
The aim of this Special Issue is to emphasize the importance of blood pressure, heart rate, and arterial hypertension in diabetic patients.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marijana Tadić
Prof. Cesare Cuspidi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diabetes
- hypertension
- heart rate
- blood pressure
- heart rate variability
- ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
- blood pressure patterns
