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Diagnosing vascular variability anomalies, not only MESOR-hypertension.

Authors :
Halberg, Franz
Powell, Deborah
Kuniaki Otsuka
Yoshihiko Watanabe
Beaty, Larry A.
Rosch, Paul
Czaplicki, Jerzy
Hillman, Dewayne
Schwartzkopff, Othild
Cornelissen, Germaine
Source :
American Journal of Physiology: Heart & Circulatory Physiology. Aug2013, Vol. 305 Issue 3, pH279-H294. 16p.
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

Chronobiology is the study of biological rhythms. Chronomics investigates interactions with environmental cycles in a genetically coded autoresonance of the biosphere with wrangling space and terrestrial weather. Analytical global and local methods applied to human blood pressure records of around-the-clock measurements covering decades detect physiological-physical interactions, a small yet measurable response to solar and terrestrial magnetism. The chronobiological and chronomic interpretation of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (C-ABPM) records in the light of time-specified reference values derived from healthy peers matched by sex and age identify vascular variability anomalies (VVAs) for an assessment of cardio-, cerebro-, and renovascular disease risk. Even within the conventionally accepted normal range, VVAs have been associated with a statistically significant increase in risk. Long-term C-ABPM records help to "know ourselves," serving for relief of psychological and other strain once transient VVAs are linked to the source of a load, prompting adjustment of one's lifestyle for strain reduction. Persistent circadian VVAs can be treated, sometimes by no more than a change in timing of the daily administration of antihypertensive medication. Circadian VVA assessment is an emergency worldwide, prompted in the United States by 1,000 deaths per day every day from problems related to blood pressure. While some heads of state met under United Nation and World Health Organization sponsorship to declare that noncommunicable diseases are a slow-motion disaster, a resolution has been drafted to propose C-ABPM as an added tool complementing purely physical environmental monitoring to contribute also to the understanding of social and natural as well as personal cataclysms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
03636135
Volume :
305
Issue :
3
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
American Journal of Physiology: Heart & Circulatory Physiology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
89801108
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00212.2013