The cost-effectiveness of hypertension treatment in Sweden: an analysis of the criteria for intervention and the choice of drug treatment.

abstract：:This study reports a correlation of alkaline phosphatase (AP) with diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and a reduction of alkaline phosphatase after chlorthalidone therapy that reached a nadir at three years of therapy, then gradually returned toward, but not reaching, baseline values. The data is from the baseline examin...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Langford HG,Curb JD,Pressel S,Schneider KA

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic hypertension is a common condition associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Hypertension confers cardiovascular risk by causing target-organ damage that includes retinopathy in addition to heart disease, stroke, renal insufficiency and peripheral vascular disease. The recognition of hypertensive r...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Chatterjee S,Chattopadhyay S,Hope-Ross M,Lip PL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure-to-height ratio (BPHR) has been reported to perform well for identifying hypertension (HTN) in adolescents but not in young children. Our study was aimed to evaluate the performance of BPHR and modified BPHR (MBPHR) for screening HTN in children. A total of 5268 Chinese children (boys: 53.1%) aged 6-12 ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Zhang Y,Ma C,Yang L,Bovet P,Xi B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium-lithium countertransport activity has been proposed as a marker for hypertension and is lower in black compared to Caucasian subjects both with and without vascular disease. The question arises of what is the primary kinetic locus of the altered behaviour of the countertransporter in black subjects and whether ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Hardman TC,Croft P,Morrish Z,Anto-Awoakye K,Lant AF

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High leptin levels are often observed in human obesity and are implicated in obesity-related hypertension. Leptin levels have been found to be higher in hypertensive obese African-American women compared to normotensive African-American women, but a direct association between leptin and blood pressure could not be obt...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Schutte R,Huisman HW,Schutte AE,Malan NT

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riley Day syndrome, commonly referred to as familial dysautonomia (FD), is a genetic disease with extremely labile blood pressure owing to baroreflex deafferenation. Chronic renal disease is very frequent in these patients and was attributed to recurrent arterial hypotension and renal hypoperfusion. Aggressive treatme...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Norcliffe-Kaufmann L,Axelrod FB,Kaufmann H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial compliance, assessed by the ratio of stroke volume to pulse pressure, and baroreceptor sensitivity (Oxford method), were determined in ten patients with essential hypertension, treated with placebo or indapamide (2.5 mg/day), in a cross-over, single blind study. After three months of therapy, mean arterial pr...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Carretta R,Fabris B,Bardelli M,Muiesan S,Fischetti F,Vran F,Bianchetti A,Campanacci L

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the first blood pressure (BP) reference considering influence of height in China, national blood pressure reference for Chinese han children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years (CCBP) was issued in 2017. The current study aimed to observe the short-term trends in BP and prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) and hi...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Hu J,Shen H,Wu JZ,Xiao Q,Chu GP,Teng CG,Liu F,Yang HB

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A deletion/insertion polymorphism in the ACE gene has been reported previously as a potent factor for myocardial infarction. We have tested the frequency of the deletion (D) allele of the ACE gene in 308 consecutive patients admitted to coronary care with chest pain. The gene frequencies were compared with those of 34...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Leatham E,Barley J,Redwood S,Hussein W,Carter N,Jeffery S,Bath PM,Camm A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure (BP) during siesta declines to levels similar to those of night time sleep. The objective of the study was to assess the effect of siesta on 24-h ambulatory BP (ABP) data. Two different approaches were employed for the definition of day and night periods: (1) actual patient reported day and night interv...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Stergiou GS,Malakos JS,Zourbaki AS,Achimastos AD,Mountokalakis TD

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses approaches to evaluating the importance of different childhood behaviours on subsequent risk of high blood pressure and related cardiovascular risk factors and outlines results of a randomised controlled trial of nutrition and exercise interventions in schoolchildren. Clustering of cardiovascular ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Beilin L,Burke V,Milligan R

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are complications in diagnosing hypertension in children and adolescents due to variation of blood pressure (BP) values to age, gender and height. This study was aimed at assessing whether the performance of BP-to-height ratio (BPHR) can be an effective tool for screening prehypertension and hypertension in Elli...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Sekgala MD,Monyeki KD,Mogale MA,Ramoshaba NE

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension (HTN) related to health-promoting behaviors (HPB) and quality of life (QOL) in older Chinese has not been clearly identified. We sought to compare the HPB and QOL of elderly adults (aged ≥60) living with HTN in China to a community normotensive control group. Using multistage stratified cluster sampling, ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Cao W,Hou G,Guo C,Guo Y,Zheng J

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of various blood pressure (BP) measurement methods on the assessment of differences in BP levels between patients with normoalbuminuric type 1 diabetes and healthy controls. We measured intra-arterial BP (i.a.), sphygmomanometric BP (sphygmo), 24-h ambulatory blood pr...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Vervoort G,Wetzels JF,Lutterman JA,Berden JH,Thien T,Smits P

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older age and low socio-economic conditions are associated with poor control of cardiovascular risk factors (RFs). We assessed the prevalence and awareness of cardiovascular RFs in 503 elderly outpatients of low social status attending two public Internal Medicine clinics in Naples, and studied the interaction of educ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Marotta T,Viola S,Ferrara F,Ferrara LA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to assess factors associated with treatment satisfaction among patients receiving antihypertensive therapy. A weighted cross-sectional online survey was conducted with hypertensive patients participating in a chronic disease panel in the US. Patients on monotherapy with medications from ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Chen K,Chiou CF,Plauschinat CA,Frech F,Harper A,Dubois R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension and hyperhomocystinemia have a joint effect on the risk of stroke. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) and blood pressure in two independent Chinese populations. Four thousand five hundred and fifty-five participants who underwent health examinations between Marc...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Weng H,Li Y,Fan F,Yang H,Zhou G,Sun P,Liu S,Yi T,Huo Y,Li J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 78 Chinese patients with clinically uncomplicated non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM) who had plasma creatinine concentrations of < 150 mumol/l were studied. Antihypertensive treatment was discontinued for at least six weeks prior to measurements of routine biochemistry, proteinuria, plasma atrial natriu...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Chan JC,Cheung CK,Cockram CS,Critchley JA,Swaminathan R,Law LK,Nicholls MG

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C(-344)T promoter polymorphism of the human aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) gene has been associated with hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy, but there were contrasting data. We analysed the genotype/phenotype associations between this polymorphism and cardiovascular variables in a young adult population, where i...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Sarzani R,Salvi F,Dessì-Fulgheri P,Catalini R,Mazzara D,Cola G,Siragusa N,Spagnolo D,Ercolani P,Gesuita R,Carle F,Rappelli A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied prospectively the acute blood pressure lowering effect on an oral dose of captopril, 25 mg in 240 hypertensive patients. The mean relative reduction of systolic and diastolic BP was 16 and 15% respectively and the mean time to the mean arterial pressure nadir was 59 minutes. Systolic BP fell by more th...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Postma CT,Dennesen PJ,de Boo T,Thien T

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is still controversial whether treatment with renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors reduces the risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF). This longitudinal observational study was performed to investigate the confounder-independent effects of RAS inhibitors on new-onset AF in hypertensive patients. Among 1263 ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Horio T,Akiyama M,Iwashima Y,Yoshihara F,Nakamura S,Tokudome T,Okutsu M,Tanaka H,Komatsubara I,Okimoto N,Kamakura S,Kawano Y

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether inappropriately high left ventricular (LV) mass, defined as observed LV mass exceeding the level of individual LV mass predicted from gender, height, and stroke work, may be associated with an imbalance between growth-promoting and growth-inhibitory factors and/or structural vascular changes. I...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Olsen MH,Wachtell K,de Simone G,Palmieri V,Dige-Petersen H,Devereux RB,Ibsen H,Rokkedal J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical syndrome of supine hypertension associated with orthostatic hypotension (OH) in given individuals is recognized by specialists, but is underdiagnosed in the community. The objective of this study was to assess supine hypertension associated with hypotensive reactions on head-up tilt (SH-HRT) among patient...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Naschitz JE,Mussafia-Priselac R,Kovalev Y,Zaigraykina N,Slobodin G,Elias N,Storch S,Rosner I

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of the 'Accutracker', a new lightweight ambulatory blood pressure monitor, has been carried out in 14 subjects. Using a cross-over study design, BP readings obtained by the monitor were compared with BP measurements carried out in the opposite arm by a random zero sphygmomanometer. Both the systolic and ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Phillips DI,Braithwaite J,Newcombe RG,Lazarus JH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the association between serum lipoprotein subclasses and the three measures of arterial stiffness, that is, (i) carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), which is a gold standard measure of central arterial stiffness, (ii) brachial-ankle PWV (baPWV), which is emerging as a combined measure of central an...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Vishnu A,Choo J,Masaki KH,Mackey RH,Barinas-Mitchell E,Shin C,Willcox BJ,El-Saed A,Seto TB,Fujiyoshi A,Miura K,Lee S,Sutton-Tyrrell K,Kuller LH,Ueshima H,Sekikawa A,ERA JUMP Study Group.

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present paper was to evaluate the influence of a family history of hypertension and the degree of obesity as indicated by tertiles of body mass index on ambulatory blood pressure (BP) values in large number (n = 406) of young mild essential hypertensives. Positive family history of hypertension was asso...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Narkiewicz K,Gatti P,Garavelli G,Pegoraro F,Milani L,Gelisio R,Palatini P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of hepatic steatosis was determined in 180 middle-aged male workers by ultrasonography and was found in 39 (22%) of them. Body mass index (BMI), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) and serum levels of asparate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase ...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Ikai E,Ishizaki M,Suzuki Y,Ishida M,Noborizaka Y,Yamada Y

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The burden of Type II diabetes is growing rapidly worldwide, across high-, middle- and low-income countries. This burden is associated primarily with increased risks of macrovascular and microvascular diseases, and it is agreed that multifactorial treatment regimens are required to reduce it. ADVANCE (Action in Diabet...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Patel A,Chalmers J,Poulter N

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe the pattern of blood pressure (BP) distribution in a multiethnic primary care practice in relation to sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle and risk factors. Another aim was to analyse the quality of diagnosis and effectiveness of hypertension (HT) treatment. In all, 470 adu...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Al-Windi A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:European guidelines indicate the importance of the evaluation of global cardiovascular risk (CVR) to determine the management of the hypertensive patients (EH). However, in primary care, the diagnostic work-up (PCD) only includes the metabolic risk factors. The aim of this study was to assess the importance of microal...

journal_title：Journal of human hypertension

authors： Luque M,de Rivas B,Alvarez B,Garcia G,Fernandez C,Martell N

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00