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Seasonal, Weekly, and Circadian Variability of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke

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Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics

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Circadian rhythms have been recognized in many biological phenomena, including secretion of hormones, activities of the autonomic nervous system, and various cardiovascular pathologies. Transient myocardial ischemia (1,2), acute myocardial infarction (3), embolism (4), rupture of aortic aneurysms (5), sudden cardiac death (6), and death as a result of hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease (7) have been shown to follow a certain circadian pattern; the same has been observed in the onset of stroke.

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Vagaonescu, T.D., Phillips, R.A. (2007). Seasonal, Weekly, and Circadian Variability of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke. In: White, W.B. (eds) Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics. Clinical Hypertension and Vascular Diseases. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-978-3_12

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