Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 5 variant Q89R is associated with hypertension in Japanese females.

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：:Sympathetic nerve activity is augmented by calcium-channel blocker treatment as a result of decreased blood pressure. Dihydropyridine calcium-channel blockers are divided into three different types. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether treatment effects on hemodynamics, cardiac autonomic nerve a...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Ogura C,Ono K,Miyamoto S,Ikai A,Mitani S,Sugimoto N,Tanaka S,Fujita M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertensive patients who are at high risk of developing cardiovascular (CV) complications have become the focus of modern treatment guidelines. The choice of antihypertensive therapies in these patients should be evidence-based: in particular, there should be evidence of a beneficial impact on CV events in addition t...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Ruilope LM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hypertension and Diabetes Screening and Awareness (HYDRA) study is a cross-sectional point-prevalence study performed in September 2001; 45,125 primary care attendees were recruited from a representative nationwide sample of 1912 primary care practices in Germany. Around 42% of all patients presenting in these pra...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Steckelings UM,Stoppelhaar M,Sharma AM,Wittchen HU,Krause P,Küpper B,Kirch W,Pittrow D,Ritz E,Göke B,Lehnert H,Tschöpe D,Höfler M,Pfister H,Unger T,HYDRA Study Group.

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Event-based clinical outcome trials have shown limited evidence to support guidelines recommendations to lower blood pressure (BP) to <130/80 mmHg in middle-aged and elderly hypertensive patients with diabetes mellitus or with general high cardiovascular (CV) risk. We addressed this issue by post-hoc analysing ...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Olsen E,Holzhauer B,Julius S,Kjeldsen SE,Larstorp ACK,Mancia G,Mehlum MH,Mo R,Rostrup M,Søraas CL,Zappe D,Weber MA

更新日期：2021-01-06 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：:The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and different left ventricular (LV) geometric patterns in the middle-aged women population of Tallinn, to assess the relationship between LV geometry, age, blood pressure and LV repolarization duration and inhomogeneity....

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Shipilova T,Pshenichnikov I,Kaik J,Volozh O,Abina J,Kalev M,Lass J,Karai D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Our aim was to study different levels of high blood pressure and normal blood pressure (reference) to calculate the hazard ratios (HRs) for cardiovascular and total mortality in men and women with adjustments for many covariates. METHODS:A health-screening program was offered to a population-based sample in Stockh...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Carlsson AC,Theobald H,Hellénius ML,Wändell PE

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) improves upper airway obstruction in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), who often are overweight-obese. Although it is thought that CPAP improves long-term blood pressure control (BP), the impact of acute and short-term CPAP use on the cardiovascular syst...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Ratneswaran C,Pengo MF,Xiao S,Luo Y,Rossi GP,Polkey MI,Moxham J,Steier J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (BP) provides guideline for the new category of BP levels as normal, prehypertension (PHT), and hypertension. Although PHT is associated with a markedly increased risk of developing h...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Erdogan D,Caliskan M,Yildirim I,Gullu H,Baycan S,Ciftci O,Yildirir A,Muderrisoglu H

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Candesartan is a new angiotensin II type 1 (AT 1 ) receptor blocker that produces more effective 24-h blood pressure lowering than losartan in hypertensive patients. In in vitro tissue preparations, candesartan displays insurmountable antagonism of the responses to angiotensin II. Both irbesartan and EXP-3174, the act...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Morsing U Brandt-Eliasson L Renberg T Abrahamsson P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated intracellular free calcium (Ca2+) has been proposed as a mechanism of alcohol-induced hypertension from animal experimental studies, but this has not been confirmed in man. In the present study, intraplatelet Ca2+ concentration (plt.[Ca2+]i) was measured in 83 middle-aged men, and the associations between alc...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Ikai E,Ishizaki M,Tsuritani I,Ishida M,Noborisaka Y,Yamada Y

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：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：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：:Self-measurement of blood pressure (BP) at home is more common than 10 years ago and encouraged by current guidelines to increase patient adherence to treatment and reach the goal of target BP. The aims of this study are to evaluate the accuracy of home sphygmomanometers and to investigate behavior/knowledge of the sp...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Dilek M,Adibelli Z,Aydogdu T,Koksal AR,Cakar B,Akpolat T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: Elevated blood pressure induces electrocardiographic changes and is associated with an increase in cardiovascular disease later in life compared to normal blood pressure levels. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between normal to high normal blood pressure values (90-139/50-89 mmHg) an...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Hassing GJ,van der Wall HEC,van Westen GJP,Kemme MJB,Adiyaman A,Elvan A,Burggraaf J,Gal P

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Background. The relationship between the C-344T polymorphism of CYP11b2 gene and blood pressure (BP) is controversial. The present study aimed to investigate whether it was affected by environmental determinants in Chinese Mongolian population. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted between 2003 and 2...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Pan X,Liu Y,Zhang Y,Zhang X,Xu Q,Tong W

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis of a causal relationship between high insulin levels and the development of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and to determine the clinical, anthropometric, metabolic and insulin profile in men with fast-growing BPH compared with men with slow-growing BPH. The pres...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Hammarsten J,Högstedt B

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertension is a global health threat and major cardiovascular risk. Various risk-prediction models for incident hypertension have been developed but not many of them have studied the risk-predictive value of life style factors in combination with cardiovascular biomarkers during long-term period of over 10...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Terho A,Bloigu R,Bloigu A,Niemelä O,Tulppo M,Kesäniemi YA,Ukkola O

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Using both in vitro and in vivo techniques, it has repeatedly been shown that endothelium-dependent vasodilation (EDV) is impaired in different forms of experimental hypertension (SHR, Dahl salt-sensitive rat, DOCA-salt rat and renovascular hypertension). EDV has also been found to be impaired in primary, as well as i...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Lind L

更新日期：2000-01-01 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 determine the factors influencing general practitioners' prescribing for patients with moderate hypertension, and to investigate their ability to assess patients' absolute risk of cardiovascular disease. DESIGN:Decision-making was assessed by a postal questionnaire involving five standardised example pati...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Hamilton-Craig CR,Tonkin AL,Jobling RG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: Arterial stiffness predicts cardiovascular complications. The association between arterial stiffness and blood lead (BL) remains poorly documented. We aimed to assess the association of central hemodynamic measurements, including pulse wave velocity (aPWV), with blood lead in a Flemish population.Materials an...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Yu CG,Wei FF,Zhang ZY,Thijs L,Yang WY,Mujaj B,Feng YM,Boggia J,Roels HA,Struijker-Boudier HAJ,Nawrot TS,Verhamme P,Staessen JA

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：: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：INTRODUCTION:Detection and treatment of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in hypertension is important in order to reduce cardiovascular risk. The product of QRS voltage and duration (e.g. Cornell voltage-duration product; CorP), is a good marker of LVH and the current study was designed to determine the prevalence of...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Barrios V,Escobar C,Calderon A,Ribas L,Marti D,Asin E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00