Arterial hypertension, left ventricular geometry and QT dispersion in a middle-aged Estonian female population.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was to evaluate the relationship of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) with extracranial carotid arteries atherosclerosis (ECAS) and intracranial cerebral atherosclerosis (ICAS) in ischemic stroke (IS) patients. METHODS:This study was a prospective cohort analysis of consecutive patients...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Wang K,Zhao JW,Jiang GM,Yun WW,Chen ZY

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low birth weight and high placental weight are associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Children born after hypertensive pregnancies have higher blood pressure than children born after normotensive pregnancies. Hypertension in pregnancy is considered a major risk factor for intrauterine growth...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Himmelmann K,Himmelmann A,Niklasson A,Svensson A

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) on plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level in hypertensive and normotensive subjects with and without systolic left ventricular dysfunction. METHODS AND RESULTS:Forty patients affec...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Brzezinska U,El Mokhtari NE,Simon R,Tykarski A

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：AIM:To describe the limitation of physical activity, the cause of limitation of physical activity and symptoms of dyspnea and chest pain before and 2 years after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in relation to a history of hypertension. METHODS:All patients from western Sweden who underwent CABG between 1988 and...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Herlitz J,Caidahl K,Albertsson P,Karlsson T,Hartford M,Haglid M,Lurje L,Karlson BW,Sjöland H

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of spirapril and isradipine on blood pressure, urinary albumin excretion and sodium-volume homeostasis in hypertensive insulin-dependent diabetic patients with nephropathy were assessed. Fifteen Type 1 diabetic patients aged 28-53 years with a diabetes duration of 19-37 years were studied. All had hyperten...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Nørgaard K,Jensen T,Christensen P,Feldt-Rasmussen B

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Sleep disordered breathing has increasingly been recognised as a frequent cause of ill-health in the community. Moderate or severe forms of the most common condition, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), occur in up to 12% of the adult male population. A substantial body of literature has been published on the potential rel...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors：

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To study whether the cardiovascular preventive effect of antihypertensive therapy can be explained solely by the reduction in office blood pressure, and to what extent the risk of stroke and cardiac events is associated with in-study diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and systolic blood pressure (SBP). DESIGN:Th...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Ekbom T,Dahlöf B,Hansson L,Lindholm LH,Odén A,Scherstén B,Wester PO

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Hypertension is a significant contributor to cardiovascular disease in HIV-infected individuals. The purposes of this study were to assess the development of new-onset hypertension and the use of antihypertensive treatment and blood pressure (BP) control. METHODS:In a longitudinal study of 434 HIV-infected ...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Manner IW,Baekken M,Oektedalen O,Os I

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample comprising 51 normotensive subjects and 51 subjects with in-clinic arterial hypertension [blood pressures (BPs) > or = 140/90 mmHg), we investigated the prevalence of target organ damage [left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and retinal vasculopathy] in white coat hypertension (WCH) groups defined using: (a)...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Pose-Reino A,Rodríguez-Fernández M,López-Barreiro L,Coleman IC,Estévez-Nuñez JC,Méndez-Naya I

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Purpose: We aimed to identify sex-specific factors associated with increase in blood pressure (BP) and incident hypertension in early midlife.Materials and methods: 2,008 women and 1,610 men aged 40-43 years were followed for six years in the Hordaland Health Study. Participants taking antihypertensive medication at b...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Kringeland E,Tell GS,Midtbø H,Haugsgjerd TR,Igland J,Gerdts E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the angiotensin receptor blocker valsartan is associated with a lower incidence of new-onset type 2 diabetes than that with the calcium-channel antagonist amlodipine in the treatment of hypertensive patients at high cardiovascular risk. We have now investigated the benefits of valsartan v...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Kjeldsen SE,McInnes GT,Mancia G,Hua TA,Julius S,Weber MA,Coca A,Girerd X,Jamerson K,Larochelle P,Macdonald T,Schmieder RE,Anthony Schork M,Viskoper R,Widimsky J,Zanchetti A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Losartan represent a novel approach in the treatment of hypertension. Clinical trials have reported a very low incidence of side effects. We describe two patients who developed increases in alanine/aspartate amino transferase of 8 and 15 times the upper normal limit, as well as thoracic pain, after a short time of tre...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Nygaard B,Strandgaard S

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare unattended blood pressure (BP) with two attended BP, with 24-h ambulatory (ABPM) and central BP measurements in hypertensive patients with (DMs) and without diabetes (HTs). METHODS:In the same hypertension clinic we evaluate 129 consecutive HTs (56% female, 59 + 16 yrs) and 91 DMs (62% female, 64 ...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Polonia J,Baptista C,Silva J,Barbosa L

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical profile and blood pressure (BP) control rates of anticoagulated patients with hypertension and atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS:The PAULA study was a multicenter cross-sectional/retrospective observational study conducted throughout Spain. The study included patients with nonvalvul...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Barrios V,Escobar C,Prieto Valiente L,Lobos JM,Vargas-Ortega D,Polo J,Marin Montañés N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a review of experimental and clinical research on the contribution of hypertension to cochlear hearing loss. Hypertension is one of the crucial risk factors underlying pathophysiological processes taking place in the cochlea. Several mechanisms explaining these processes have been described, mainly...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Przewoźny T,Gójska-Grymajło A,Kwarciany M,Gąsecki D,Narkiewicz K

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:In a previous study we investigated the differential time courses of the vasodilator effect of various calcium antagonists (CA) in small isolated rat mesenteric arteries (van der Lee et al., Fundam Clin Pharmacol, 1998: 12: 607-12). We concluded that the differences observed could be due to differences in lipophilicit...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： van der Lee R,Pfaffendorf M,Koopmans RP,van Lieshout JJ,van Montfrans GA,van Zwieten PA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective antihypertensive care is not possible without regular and reliable blood pressure measurements. The use of blood pressure home measurement has increased a lot during the last years. Various methods have been used in communication between the patients and physicians. In a randomized study we compared traditio...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Varis J,Kantola I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medullipin I (Med I) is a vasodepressor prohormone which is continuously elaborated into the renal venous effluent (RVE) of isolated rat kidneys perfused under high pressure. We have improved the yield of Med I by substituting saline for the albumin perfusate previously reported; and considerably improved refinement b...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Brooks B,Byers LW,Muirhead EE,Muirhead M,Pitcock JA,Maddipati KR,Maxey KM

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that the number of circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) reflects the endogenous vascular repair ability, with the EPCs pool declining in the presence of cardiovascular risk factors. However, their relationship with hypertension and the effects of anti-hypertensive treatment remain uncle...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： de Ciuceis C,Pilu A,Rizzoni D,Porteri E,Muiesan ML,Salvetti M,Paini A,Belotti E,Zani F,Boari GE,Rosei CA,Rosei EA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We wanted to investigate whether time to steady state was reached within 2 h of insulin infusion during isoglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp, comparing the glucose uptake index (M/IG) with Bergman's insulin sensitivity index (Sip). We performed a 2-h oral glucose tolerance test and a 3-h isoglycemic hyperinsulinemic cla...

journal_title：Blood pressure

authors： Olsen MH,Andersen UB,Wachtell K,Ibsen H,Dige-Petersen H

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：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：: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