Effects of normal blood pressure, prehypertension and hypertension on left ventricular diastolic function and aortic elastic properties.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to determine if there is an association of different gene polymorphisms of renin-angiotensin system and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in patients with essential hypertension (EH) in St Petersburg population. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We examined 156 patients (the mean age 49+...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Shlyakhto EV,Shwartz EI,Nefedova YB,Zukova AV,Vinnic TA,Conrady AO

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of home blood pressure (BP) measurement, the type of devices and accuracy in a large sample of hypertensive patients referred to hospital outpatient hypertension clinics. METHODS:Eight hundred and fifty-five consecutive treated hypertensive patients who atte...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Cuspidi C,Meani S,Lonati L,Fusi V,Magnaghi G,Garavelli G,Palumbo G,Pini C,Vaccarella A,Parati G,Leonetti G,Zanchetti A,Lombardy Regional Section of the Italian Hypertension Society.

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only a minority of all hypertensives is well controlled in the population. In order to assess the proportion of well controlled hypertensives and the factors associated with hypertension control in France, we designed an observational cross-sectional epidemiological study in a population of 4702 treated adult hyperten...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Roux O,Chapellier M,Czernichow S,Nisse-Durgeat S,Safar ME,Blacher J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low compliance to therapeutic regimens can have serious impact on patient health. A variety of technologies such as tablet dispensers and reminders has been developed to improve compliance. The aim of this study was to assess the acceptance of patients and physicians with regard to the functions and usefulness of a re...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Christensen A,Christrup LL,Fabricius PE,Chrostowska M,Wronka M,Narkiewicz K,Hansen EH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin stimulates phospholipase A(2)(PLA(2)) leading to the production of prostaglandin products, several of which are vasoconstrictors. We hypothesised that the elevated vascular responsiveness to serotonin in deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-hypertensive rats is due in part to augmented production of vasoconstr...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Kanagy NL,Mecca TE,Webb RC

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and changes of cardiovascular risk factors in the middle-aged Lithuanian subjects after conducting the primary prevention program. DESIGN AND METHODS:Four cross-sectional investigations of cardiovascular risk factors were conducted in 2009 (n = 9625), 2010 ...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Laucevičius A,Rinkūnienė E,Skujaitė A,Petrulionienė Ž,Puronaitė R,Dženkevičiūtė V,Kasiulevičius V,Jatužis D,Ryliškytė L,Šlapikas R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study is to assess the relative impact of lifestyle factors including physical inactivity, cigarette smoking, and alcohol intake on insulin resistance in hypertensive patients. In total, 872 hypertensive patients, of Chinese and Japanese origin, from the Stanford Asia and Pacific Program for Hyperte...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Hwu CM,Hsiao CF,Kuo SW,Wu KD,Ting CT,Quertermous T,Rodriguez B,Chen I,Grove J,Chen PY,Hoo LT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Having found that circulating adrenaline (AD) is selectively elevated in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) compared with Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY), we extended the comparison to include other normotensive and hypertensive rat strains. Aortic catheters were implanted in young (5-7 weeks) and old (7-9 m...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Jablonskis LT,Howe PR

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction in blood pressure seen with the use of beta-blocking drugs was an unexpected finding. Initially there was resistance to their use as the reduction of cardiac output and increase in peripheral resistance from beta-blockade was considered an undesirable pharmacological action for a drug in the treatment of...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Prichard BN,Cruickshank JM,Graham BR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effects of amlodipine and candesartan on oxidized low-density lipoprotein (OxLDL), conjugated dienes (CD) and baseline diene conjugation in circulating low-density lipoproteins (LDL-BDC) level during antihypertensive treatment. METHODS:Forty-nine patients with untreated mild to moderate essent...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Muda P,Kampus P,Teesalu R,Zilmer K,Ristimäe T,Fischer K,Zilmer M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we aimed to elucidate the role of central noradrenergic, dopaminergic, adrenergic and serotonergic neuronal systems in the development of essential hypertension. Fifteen untreated essential hypertensive subjects (aged 44 +/- 3 years) and 32 healthy volunteers (aged 38 +/- 3 years) participated in this st...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Lambert GW,Ferrier C,Kaye DM,Kalff V,Kelly MJ,Cox HS,Turner AG,Jennings GL,Esler MD

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the contribution of the nitric oxide (NO)-pathway to cholinergic vasodilatation in the resistance vessels of the human forearm, we infused acetylcholine (ACh; 0.1 1000 ng/kg/min) or methacholine (MCh; 0.1 A 100 ng/kg/min) in the presence of saline, the NO-scavenger and guanylate cyclase inhibitor met...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Bruning TA,Chang PC,Kemme MJ,Vermeij P,Pfaffendorf M,van Zwieten PA

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) are among the recommended first-line treatment options in patients with hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD). This meta-analysis evaluated the effect of ARB on blood pressure (BP) and renal function in patients with concomitant hypertension and CKD with or withou...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Burnier M,Lin S,Ruilope L,Bader G,Durg S,Brunel P

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate further the relationship between atherosclerotic vascular disease and blood pressure, and the phenomenon of white coat hypertension, we performed a cross-sectional study of patients referred for carotid Doppler scanning, to determine the relationship between ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) a...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Landray MJ,Sagar G,Murray S,Beevers M,Beevers DG,Lip GY

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of the study was to determine whether a high dose of atorvastatin lowers blood pressure (BP) in normolipemic patients with well controlled primary arterial hypertension and if this effect is associated with alteration of biomarkers of endothelial function and oxidative stress. In this open-label study, nor...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Kuklinska AM,Mroczko B,Musial WJ,Sawicki R,Kozieradzka A,Usowicz-Szarynska M,Kaminski K,Knapp M,Szmitkowski M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum uric acid (SUA) but also hemorheological parameters such as hematocrit (Hct) and whole blood viscosity (WBV) are markers of cardiovascular risk. Increased blood cell volume is one of the known causes of hyperuricemia. We therefore aimed to investigate the relationship between SUA and hemorheology in untreated bo...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Höieggen A,Fossum E,Reims H,Kjeldsen SE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy and safety of renin angiotensin aldosterone system blockers (RAASB's) if introduced immediately after renal transplantation have not been extensively investigated. METHODS:The medical charts of 142 kidney transplant recipients who received a RAASB in the early postoperative period and of 114 ma...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Chatzikyrkou C,Eichler J,Karch A,Clajus C,Scurt FG,Ramackers W,Lehner F,Menne J,Haller H,Mertens PR,Schiffer M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BBB study (Swedish for Behandla Blodtryck Bättre or Treat Blood Pressure Better) was a multicenter trial designed to investigate three aspects of antihypertensive treatment: i) Is it possible to lower the diastolic blood pressure further in "well-treated" hypertensive patients through intensified therapy? ii) Can ...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Hannson L

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the western world and has reached epidemic proportions. The incidence of congestive heart failure (CHD) and hypertension is also rising rapidly in many of the affluent Arab nations and cardiovascular diseases continue to be a leading cause o...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Bener A,al Suwaidi J,el-Menyar A,Gehani A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with severe hypertension with retinoscopic bilateral papilloedema only are not classically regarded as having malignant hypertension (MHT). We have encountered 23 such patients between 1965-1993, whilst over a similar period we have seen 315 patients who fulfilled the conventional criteria for MHT with bilate...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Lip GY,Beevers M,Dodson PM,Beevers DG

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:(1) To evaluate the prevalence of clinic blood pressure (BP) control in a large sample of treated hypertensives followed in our hypertension clinic during the year 2000, and to compare it with our 1997 data. (2) To investigate the prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) according to different levels of BP...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Cuspidi C,Michev I,Fusi V,Severgnini B,Sala C,Meani S,Corti C,Valerio C,Magrini F,Zanchetti A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the role of opioid receptors in two models of experimental hypertension the binding of 3H-naloxone to membranes prepared from discrete brain regions and spinal cord was determined. Renal hypertensive rats (RHR) were found to have a greater density of 3H-naloxone binding sites in the hippocampus and h...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Widy-Tyszkiewicz E,Kotapski J,Czlonkowski A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Resistant hypertensive (RHTN) patients have endothelial dysfunction and aldosterone excess, which contribute to the development of resistance to antihypertensive treatment and cardiovascular complications. Biophysical forces within the arterial wall provide functional regulation of arterial stiffness. Caroti...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Figueiredo VN,Yugar-Toledo JC,Martins LC,Martins LB,de Faria AP,de Haro Moraes C,Sierra C,Coca A,Moreno H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The main objective was to compare the mean change in augmentation index of hypertensive patients treated with nebivolol or atenolol. METHODS:Multicenter, double-blind randomized study conducted in six Spanish centers. We enrolled outpatients between the ages of 40 and 65 years with mild or moderate essent...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Redón J,Pascual-Izuel JM,Rodilla E,Vicente A,Oliván J,Bonet J,Torguet JP,Calaforra O,Almirall J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is characterized by hypertrophy of the vascular media, intimal thickening and lipid-containing plaques. Atherosclerosis is a progressive systemic vascular disease which leads to impaired tissue perfusion due to vascular obstruction. In advanced stages it is often complicated by thrombosis. Recent resea...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Wennmalm A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Dapagliflozin improves glycemic control and systolic blood pressure (SBP) in T2DM patients. This double-blind phase III study evaluated the effects of dapagliflozin on glycemic control and blood pressure in patients with inad...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Weber MA,Mansfield TA,Alessi F,Iqbal N,Parikh S,Ptaszynska A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurohormonal changes in congestive heart failure (CHF) include an enhanced peripheral sympathetic nerve activity which results in increased release of noradrenaline, neuropeptide Y and ATP. To examine if such changes in CHF would modulate peripheral pre- and postsynaptic receptors of ATP and its degradation product a...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Zhao XH,Sun XY,Erlinge D,Edvinsson L,Hedner T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The aim was to evaluate the level of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), interleukin 18 (IL-18) and retinol binding protein (RBP) in children with primary hypertension and no features of hypertensive nephropathy. METHODS:The study group consisted of 19 children (15 males) aged 14.8 ± 2.1...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Blumczynski A,Sołtysiak J,Lipkowska K,Silska M,Poprawska A,Musielak A,Zaniew M,Zachwieja J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to investigate left ventricular (LV) morphology and function in normotensive offspring of subjects with essential hypertension (familial trait - FT), and to determine the association between LV mass and determinants of LV diastolic function and endothelium-dependent (NO-mediated) dilation of the bra...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Zizek B,Poredos P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Compare multiple in office BP measurements in adolescents using an oscillometric device with out-of-office blood pressure measurements (home blood pressure monitoring - HBPM). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Office measurements were performed with validated semi-automatic devices twice (3 minutes interval) in two differ...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Jardim TV,Gaziano TA,Nascente FM,Carneiro CS,Morais P,Roriz V,Mendonça KL,Póvoa TIR,Barroso WKS,Sousa ALL,Jardim PCV

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00