Abstract:
:Conflicting reports exist as to whether air traffic controllers (ATC) have an increase in blood pressure (BP) and prevalence of hypertension because of the stressful nature of their job. We have addressed the issue in male ATC working at the Linate airport of Milan. A total of 80 ATC participated, and the 24 h blood pressure monitoring was obtained during two working shifts separated by one night of rest. Blood pressure was measured conventionally and by 24 h ambulatory monitoring; data were compared with those of an age matched male sample three times as large, selected from the data of the Studio delle Pressioni Ambulatoriali delle Loro Associazioni (PAMELA), ie, a large sample representative of the population of the nearby town of Monza. Treated hypertensive subjects were excluded from both groups. Conventional diastolic BP and heart rate were similar in ATC and controls, whereas conventional systolic BP was significantly greater in the former than in the latter group. No difference, however, was seen between ATC and controls as far as ambulatory BP and heart rate were concerned; namely, 24 h, day, and night average systolic BP, and diastolic BP and heart rate were similar in the two groups. Thus daily life BP is not increased in ATC. This may result from the fact that, being a highly selected group with suitable training, these subjects adequately cope with the stress inherent to the job.
journal_name
Am J Hypertensjournal_title
American journal of hypertensionauthors
Sega R,Cesana G,Costa G,Ferrario M,Bombelli M,Mancia Gdoi
10.1016/s0895-7061(97)00321-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-02-01 00:00:00pages
208-12issue
2eissn
0895-7061issn
1941-7225pii
S0895-7061(97)00321-Xjournal_volume
11pub_type
杂志文章abstract:BACKGROUND:Carvedilol is known to be an adrenoreceptor blocker and free radical scavenger, used in hypertension and cardiac failure. However, its therapeutic actions cannot be fully explained by these mechanisms. In these studies, we tested the hypothesis that carvedilol action is associated with the synthesis/release ...
journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjhyper.2005.11.011
更新日期:2006-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2009-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1038/ajh.2011.67
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0895-7061(96)00321-4
更新日期:1997-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0895-7061(98)00042-9
更新日期:1998-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ajh.2007.57
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ajh.2011.76
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ajh.2011.239
更新日期:2012-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1093/ajh/hpx204
更新日期:2018-02-09 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1093/ajh/3.8.147
更新日期:1990-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/ajh/4.3.267
更新日期:1991-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1997-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0895-7061(97)00220-3
更新日期:1997-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0895-7061(97)00472-x
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ajh.2010.248
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjhyper.2005.02.009
更新日期:2005-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/ajh/hpaa037
更新日期:2020-07-18 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ajh.2009.5
更新日期:2009-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/ajh/6.11.951
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjhyper.2005.08.020
更新日期:2006-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ajh.2011.223
更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/ajh/4.6.521
更新日期:1991-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/ajh/6.9.806
更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/ajh/hpaa030
更新日期:2020-09-10 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1093/ajh/6.4s.123s
更新日期:1993-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0895-7061(01)02280-4
更新日期:2002-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of hypertension
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0895-7061(99)00152-1
更新日期:2000-02-01 00:00:00