Chronomics and Continuous Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

Download or read book Chronomics and Continuous Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring written by Kuniaki Otsuka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume applies the concept of chronomics to the medical treatment of hypertension. It starts with the recent updates on chronomics, the analytic techniques, and their application to community-based assessments. The authors advocate the use of 7-day/24-h records of blood pressure, which is effective for finding masked hypertension, masked morning surge, and other rhythm abnormalities. Most organisms, from cyanobacteria to mammals, are known to use the circadian mechanism. However, our body systems also demonstrate circaseptan (roughly weekly), circannual (roughly yearly), and even longer rhythms. Chronomics monitors the physiological data and then analyzes the superimposed rhythms, isolating the cycles mathematically to determine how organisms and their environment interact. It is the study of interactions among time structures (chronomes) in and around us.