The publication "Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation Modify the Associations of Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping Pattern with Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients" (Hypertension. 2020;76(4):1231-1239) by AIT experts Christopher Mayer and Siegfried Wassertheurer, of the Biomedical Systems Competence Unit of the Center for Health & Bioresources was awarded as Winter 2020 High Impact Paper by the American Heart Association Journal “Hypertension”. The Journal is one of the most internationally renowned journals in the field of hypertension with an impact factor of IF = 7.71. To communicate the results further, the journal invites to a social media spotlight via Twitter chat with first author Christopher Mayer.
Together with clinical partners from Germany (Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich), and Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration Hospital), the association between the change in blood pressure from day to night (the so-called "dipping") and mortality in dialysis patients was shown. It was shown that underlying heart diseases, such as heart failure and atrial fibrillation, influence and change this association (see "Appearances are deceptive - blood pressure in dialysis patients", https://www.ait.ac.at/news-events/single-view/detail/5593/?no_cache=1&sword_list%5B0%5D=test ). Christopher Mayer states that this is another important finding for the management of hypertension in dialysis patients and that this opens up a new interesting field of application for innovative parameters of pulse wave analysis in nephrology.
The data were recorded with the device "Mobil-O-Graph 24h PWA" from the company IEM with the ARCSolver®. The device has also been used on the International Space Station (ISS) since early April 2018 to measure changes in vascular stiffness in astronauts.
Link to high impact papers in Hypertension: https://www.ahajournals.org/hyp/hyp-hip
Link to paper: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.15420
Twitter tweet: https://twitter.com/HyperAHA/status/1350216357246283781