Safar Michel E
Paris-Descartes University 5, Centre de Diagnostic, Hôtel-Dieu, AP HP, Place du parvis Notre-Dame, 75004 Paris, France.
Ther Adv Cardiovasc Dis. 2008 Feb;2(1):13-24. doi: 10.1177/1753944707086652.
For many years, the cyclic blood pressure (BP) curve was described exclusively from two specific points of this curve, the highest, called systolic blood pressure, and the lowest, called diastolic blood pressure, both dominating the basis of cardiovascular (CV) hypertensive epidemiology. Nowadays, it is largely admitted that the BP curve should be characterized from pulsatile arterial hemodynamics, thus leading to the definition of novel indices in CV epidemiology. The present chapter details these new aspects.
多年来，循环血压（BP）曲线仅从该曲线的两个特定点进行描述，即最高值，称为收缩压，和最低值，称为舒张压，这两者主导着心血管（CV）高血压流行病学的基础。如今，人们普遍认为，应根据搏动性动脉血流动力学来描述血压曲线，从而在CV流行病学中引出新指标的定义。本章详细介绍这些新内容。
