Open AccessAmbulatory (24 Hour) Blood Pressure Monitoring in Police Officers
Author(s) -
Tomei Francesco,
Rosati Maria Valeria,
Baccolo Tiziana Paola,
Cherubini Emilia,
Ciarrocca Manuela,
Caciari Tiziana,
Tomao Enrico
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of occupational health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 59
ISSN - 1348-9585
DOI - 10.1539/joh.46.235
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , ambulatory , body mass index , ambulatory blood pressure , stressor , confounding , demography , psychiatry , sociology
Ambulatory (24 Hour) Blood Pressure Monitoring in Police Officers: Francesco Tomei, et al. University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Occupational Medicine, Italy —The aim of the study is to evaluate, by ambulatory (24 h) blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), whether police officers exposed to urban pollutants and possible psycho‐social stressors could be at risk of changes in ambulatory systolic blood pressure (SBP), and ambulatory diastolic blood pressure (DBP) compared to controls. After excluding the principal confounding factors, police officers and controls have been subdivided into non‐smoker and smoker subjects. Police officers were compared by sex, age, length of service, family history of cardiovascular disease, serum total cholesterol, serum HDL cholesterol, serum LDL cholesterol, plasma triglyceride, body mass index (BMI kg/m 2 ) and drinking habits with controls. Smoker police officers were compared with controls also by the smoking habit. In the non smoker group 77 police officers with outdoor activity (38 men and 39 women) and 87 controls with indoor activity (43 men and 44 women) were studied. In the smoker group 43 police officers (21 men and 22 women) and 29 controls (15 men and 14 women) were studied. In non smoker male police officers ambulatory SBP mean values during 24 h, during day‐time and during night‐time were significantly higher than controls. In the same group ambulatory DBP values during 24 h and between 6 AM and 11 AM and between 10 PM and 6 AM were significantly higher in police officers than controls. The results suggest that occupational exposure to urban pollutants and possible psychosocial stressors could cause changes in ABPM values in male police officers compared to controls.