Research articles

Relationship between Lifestyle and Blood Pressure Levels in Japanese High School Students. Hypertensive students had shorter sleep durations; systolic blood pressure levels were associated with BMI and male sex, and diastolic blood pressure levels were linked to sugar intake and female sex. BMI, body mass index; HT, hypertension.

 Appropriate blood pressure cuff size is critical for accurate measurements. Most Australians require a medium (51.7%) or large (44.5%) cuff meaning the cuff needs to be changed for about every second patient. Yet most home devices are supplied with one cuff size which is not suited to over 700,000 adults.

Automatic blood pressure devices require additional accuracy validation for use in pregnancy. We found only four devices (4/54, 7%) were validated for pregnancy, which were more expensive than non-validated devices. Increased education could help ensure use of appropriate blood pressure devices in pregnancy.

These authors contributed equally: Sen Liu, Xinquan Wang.

Renal denervation reduces blood pressure and attenuates cardiac hypertrophy with sympathoinhibition in the established phase of hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats. This study highlights the sympathoinhibitory effect of renal denervation and suggests that renal denervation may be a potential therapy for hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy.