Product Description: Technological progress has allowed us to develop devices which make it possible to record blood pressure and heart rate outside the real living conditions. Furthermore, technological progress has provided computer tools to analyse data on a beat-to-beat basis, offering a large body of information on the complex patterns of blood pressure and heart rate variability in health and in disease which has clarified a number of mechanisms responsible for cardiovascular regulation during the day and night...read more

Product Description: This volume describes recent technical advances in ambulatory blood pressure recording, including the move from invasive to noninvasive methods, and highlights the increasing clinical utility of this modality - in identifying and assessing cardiovascular risk factors, monitoring labile hypertension, evaluating borderline hypertension, and determining the efficacy of different antihypertensive regimens...read more

Product Description: Peñaz was the first to describe a servo control system for non-invasive and continuous blood pressure measurement at the finger. However, until recently no such device was commercially available. This book summarizes latest technical developments and validation studies comparing different methods of blood pressure measurement...read more