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• TITLE: Blood Pressure Response to Cold Stress in Black Cameroonian Adults

  AUTHORS: Sylvie Ndongo Amougou, Hamadou Ba, Chris Nadège Nganou-Gnindjio, Dieudonné Danwe, Jingi Musa Ahmadou, Liliane Kuate Mfeukeu, Jérome Hilaire Boomhbi, Christian Ngongang Ouankou, Samuel Kingue

  KEYWORDS: Blood Pressure, Cold Test, Black Cameroonian

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.4 No.12, December 6, 2017

  ABSTRACT: Introduction: The cold test is known as a predictor of essential hypertension. The hemodynamic response to this test has rarely been studied in black African adults. Black Africans also suffer cold stress. But whether they suffer it the same way as other populations is still to be determined. Equipment and Method: We studied the response of blood pressure (BP) during the cold test in 62 black normotensive adults and hypertensive Cameroonians aged between 21 and 59 years. Those with an increase in systolic blood pressure (SBP) > 20 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure > 15 mmHg were considered to be hyper-reactors. Results: SBP increased significantly in hyper-reactors compared with normo-reactors in both hypertensive and normotensive subjects (176 ± 20 vs. 154 ± 11, p = 0.01 and 148 ± 17 vs. 125 ± 11, p