Effectiveness of application of telemonitoring of blood pressure in patients with normal weight and overweight by Inna Berdnyk

“…The article summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the methods of diagnosing hypertension and features of blood pressure control. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of blood pressure monitoring in patients with normal weight and overweight and to determine their level of adherence to treatment. …”
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The impact of sports bra features on measured and perceived pressure for torso movement of the upper body by Francisca Margarita Ocran, Xiaofen Ji, Lina Zhai

“…So far, many studies on sports bras pressure have focused mainly on static activities such as standing or sitting and dynamic activities such as jumping, walking and running, skipping, and jogging that cause vertical movement of the body. …”
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Should Intelligence Tests Be Speeded or Unspeeded? A Brief Review of the Effects of Time Pressure on Response Processes and an Experimental Study with Raven’s Matrices by Corentin Gonthier

“…The first part of this work provides a brief review of major expected effects of time pressure, which includes forcing participants to skip items, convoking a mental speed factor, constraining response times, qualitatively altering cognitive processing, affecting anxiety and motivation, and interacting with individual differences. …”
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Frequency and Correlation of Body Mass Index and Waist-Hip Ratio with Fasting Glycemia and Blood Pressure in High School Students from Mexico by Lourdes Adriana Medina-Gaona, Nallely Enríquez-Sánchez, Carla Elizabeth Mejía- Ramírez, Nathalia de Jesús Orueta-Mondragón, Heriberto Medina-Franco, Yareri Sandoval-Morales, Tanya Plett-Torres

“…Sex differences in blood glucose and pressure were obtained: men had higher blood pressures and women with abdominal fat had higher fasting glycemia. …”
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Implementation of a web-based tool for patient medication self-management: the Medication Self-titration Evaluation Programme (Med-STEP) for blood pressure control by Richard W Grant, Jennifer C Pandiscio, Hannah Pajolek, Alyssa Woulfe, Alexandra Pelletier, Joseph Kvedar, Elyse R Park

“…Physicians required 3.3 ± 2.8 minutes/patient to create individualised six-step medication pathways for once-monthly blood pressure evaluations. Pilot participants (mean age of 51.5 ± 11 years, 45% women, mean baseline blood pressure 139/84 ± 12.2/7.5 mmHg) had five medication increases, two non-adherence self-reports, 52months not requiring medication changes, 24 skipped months and 17 months with no evaluations due to technical issues. …”
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Systematic Breakfast Consumption of Medium-Quantity and High-Quality Food Choices Is Associated with Better Vascular Health in Individuals with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors by Eirini D. Basdeki, Antonios A. Argyris, Olga Efthymiou, Elpida Athanasopoulou, Petros P. Sfikakis, Athanase D. Protogerou, Kalliopi Karatzi

“…Results: Systematic breakfast consumption (SBC) was inversely associated with central systolic blood pressure (b: −3.28, 95% C.I.: −5.7 to −0.86), diastolic blood pressure (b: −1.85, 95% C.I.: −3.34 to −0.36), augmentation index (b: −3.17, 95% C.I.:−4.98 to 1.35) and left carotid intima media thickness (b: −0.03, 95% C.I.:−0.06 to −0.01) compared to breakfast skipping independently of age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, smoking, and BMI. …”
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Analysis of exome data for 4293 trios suggests GPI-anchor biogenesis defects are a rare cause of developmental disorders by Pagnamenta, A, Murakami, Y, Taylor, J, Anzilotti, C, Howard, M, Miller, V, Johnson, D, Tadros, S, Mansour, S, Temple, I, Firth, R, Rosser, E, Harrison, R, Kerr, B, Popitsch, N, The DDD Study, Kinoshita, T, Taylor, J, Kini, U

Quest markup for developing FAIR questionnaire modules for epidemiologic studies by Daniel E. Russ, Nicole M. Gerlanc, Brian Shen, Bhaumik Patel, Amy Berrington de González, Neal D. Freedman, Julie M. Cusack, Mia M. Gaudet, Montserrat García-Closas, Jonas S. Almeida

“…We provide the Quest markup language, an in-browser markup rendering tool, questionnaire development tool and an example web application that embeds the renderer, developed for The Connect for Cancer Prevention Study. …”
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Intercropping Alfalfa into Silage Maize Can Be More Profitable Than Maize Silage Followed by Spring-Seeded Alfalfa by Marisol T. Berti, Johanna Lukaschewsky, Dulan P. Samarappuli

“…The experiment was conducted in Fargo and Prosper, ND, USA, in 2014–2017. The design was a randomized complete block with four replicates and a split-plot arrangement. …”
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