abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of various criteria used to define hypertension in community surveys on estimates of prevalence, treatment and control. In particular, this paper examines the effect of using mean versus minimum values; one, two or three examinations; and three different blood pressure levels. DESIGN:A ...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Birkett NJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of cyclosporine A (CsA; Sandimmun Neoral) on systemic and renal hemodynamics, tubular function, and sodium excretion in healthy volunteers. Furthermore, we studied whether CsA enhances the systemic and renal hemodynamic sensitivity to norepinephrine. METHODS:Eighteen healthy volunte...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Hansen JM,Fogh-Andersen N,Christensen NJ,Strandgaard S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure blood pressure accurately, by developing a new algorithm and an indirect method employing a non-elastic cuff with a photosensor. DESIGN AND METHODS:A non-elastic cuff was wrapped around the brachium. A reflecting plate (10 mm x 40 mm) was sited on the inner central part of the cuff on the arterial...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Tochikubo O,Kawano Y,Miyajima E,Ishii M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined the relation between cardiovascular reactivity (the response of the cardiovascular system to psychological stress) and the severity and progression of carotid atherosclerosis. METHODS:Using duplex ultrasonography, we measured the change in the area of all detectable plaques in the extracranial c...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Barnett PA,Spence JD,Manuck SB,Jennings JR

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations have delineated the renal microvascular responsiveness to pressure, by using isolated afferent arterioles, juxtamedullary nephrons, and isolated perfused hydronephrotic kidneys. Both afferent arterioles and interlobular arteries (ILA) manifest pressure-dependent vasoconstrictor responses to eleva...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Hayashi K,Epstein M,Saruta T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It has been shown that nitric oxide (NO) plays an important role in the central control of arterial pressure and sympathetic nerve activity. The aim of this study was to determine whether NO can regulate sympathetic nerve activity by an action on pressor neurons within the rostral part of the ventrolateral me...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Hirooka Y,Polson JW,Dampney RA

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of prolonged hypertension in the absence of cardiac hypertrophy on the blood pressure-heart rate reflex during acute and chronic NO synthase blockade. METHODS:Male Wistar rats were treated acutely with N omega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 50 mg/kg intraperitoneally) or ch...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Banting JD,Wiseman SL,Adams MA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to examine the reproducibility of arterial baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) provided by the spontaneous baroreflex method at rest and during laboratory tests. METHODS:Twenty healthy volunteers were studied 24 h apart, in the same laboratory and under the same environmental condit...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Iellamo F,Legramante JM,Raimondi G,Castrucci F,Massaro M,Peruzzi G

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the influence of angiotensin II (All) receptors in isolated hepatic nuclei on other genes regulated by All and to determine whether the function of these intracellular receptors is influenced by alterations in the endocrine renin system. METHODS:Nuclei were isolated from hepatic tissue of nor...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Eggena P,Zhu JH,Sereevinyayut S,Giordani M,Clegg K,Andersen PC,Hyun P,Barrett JD

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate methods to diagnose renal artery stenosis (RAS) among the general hypertensive population. METHODS:We studied the value of clinical and biochemical characteristics at the outpatient clinic to identify subjects with a renal artery narrowing of more than 50% of the luminal surface among 1047 hyp...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

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

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a diuretic can also reverse the clinical, systemic, renal and glomerular haemodynamic and pathological changes caused by nephrosclerosis. METHODS:Three groups of 20-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were investigated: control male SHR; a similar group, administered 50 mg/l N...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Ono Y,Ono H,Frohlich ED

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the dilatory effectiveness of nitric oxide donors in resistance arteries of patients with arterial hypertension in comparison with that in those of normotensive controls. BACKGROUND:Endothelium-dependent vasodilation has been demonstrated to be impaired in arterial hypertension. Besides disturbance...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Preik M,Kelm M,Feelisch M,Strauer BE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to compare the effects of prostaglandin synthesis inhibition on calculated preglomerular and postglomerular resistance in hypertensive patients with unilateral renal artery stenosis (RAS) and in patients with essential hypertension. DESIGN AND METHODS:Sixteen patients with suspected r...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Milot A,Lambert R,Lebel M,Cusson JR,Larochelle P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate endothelium-dependent vascular function in obstructive sleep apnoea patients. DESIGN AND METHODS:Forearm blood flow and vascular resistance were studied in eight normotensives and eight obstructive sleep apnoea patients and also in eight normotensive and eight hypertensive controls after graded b...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Carlson JT,Rångemark C,Hedner JA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the rate of albumin excretion and the prevalence of albuminuria in hypertensive individuals relative to the normotensive population, and to clarify the quantitative importance of confounding variables. DESIGN AND METHODS:We examined the morning urines of all consecutive non-diabetic and diabet...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Hörner D,Fliser D,Klimm HP,Ritz E

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular diseases represent the most common cause of death in the English-speaking Caribbean, and hypertension represents the most important predisposing condition. However, direct between-country comparative studies in the Caribbean have not previously been undertaken. OBJECTIVE:To obtain estimates o...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Freeman V,Fraser H,Forrester T,Wilks R,Cruickshank J,Rotimi C,Cooper R

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To search for a genetic marker of the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-dependent ATPase (SERCA) II gene in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) and to investigate differences in blood pressure and intracellular Ca2+ among some substrains of SHRs and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats related to their SERCA II genot...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Ohno Y,Matsuo K,Suzuki H,Tanase H,Ikeshima H,Takano T,Saruta T

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether a dietary supplement of vitamin B6 could attenuate the elevation of systolic blood pressure (SBP) in Zucker obese or spontaneously hypertensive rats, or rats ingesting sucrose. METHODS:Zucker obese rats (fa/fa), Sprague-Dawley rats with sucrose-induced elevation of SBP, spontaneously h...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Lal KJ,Dakshinamurti K,Thliveris J

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We tested the hypothesis that qualitative microalbuminuria (MAU) screening in a practice setting would identify non-diabetic hypertensive patients at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease. DESIGN:We enrolled general practitioners throughout Germany, who obtained histories, physical examinations, and...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Agrawal B,Berger A,Wolf K,Luft FC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe several emerging concepts regarding the biosynthesis, metabolism and biological roles of adenosine and to illustrate the possible significance of these ideas to vascular biology by proposing a hypothesis pertaining to the role of erythrocyte-derived adenosine deaminase in vaso-occlusive diseases a...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Jackson EK,Koehler M,Mi Z,Dubey RK,Tofovic SP,Carcillo JA,Jones GS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether acutely lowering insulin levels with somatostatin in obese, insulin-resistant hypertensive individuals reduces arterial pressure and forearm vascular resistance; and whether these changes are reversed by restoring insulin levels during continuing somatostatin infusion. SUBJECTS:Subjects ...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Gudbjörnsdottir S,Elam M,Sellgren J,Anderson EA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To ascertain the relationships between the kinetic properties of erythrocyte Na+-H+ exchange [maximum kinetic energy (Vmax), Michaelis constant (Km) for internal H+ and Hill's coefficient], Na+-Li+ (Vmax and Km for external Na+), and metabolic parameters in normotensive controls and hypertensive subjects. MA...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Semplicini A,Ceolotto G,Felice M,Reato S,Valle R,Gebbin A,Fontebasso A,Serena L,Pessina AC

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study blood pressure and antihypertensive drug treatment in subjects with contrasting family histories of hypertension. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:We grouped 520 offspring examined in 1990 (mean +/- SD age 36 +/- 7 years) according to their parents' blood pressure screened in 1963-1964 as offspring of two normo...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Mo R,Omvik P,Lund-Johansen P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Losartan is a new angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptor antagonist and an antihypertensive drug. Nitric oxide is a vasodilating agent and endothelins are powerful vasoconstrictors, both synthesized by and released from endothelial cells. Angiotensin II promotes the release of endothelins in cultured cells and...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Sacerdote A,Cosenzi A,Bocin E,Molino R,Seculin P,Plazzotta N,Luxich E,Bellini G

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare retinal arterial bifurcation geometry in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. DESIGN:A retrospective observational study. METHODS:Fluorescein angiograms of normotensive (n = 13) and hypertensive (n = 12) subjects aged 30-80 years with uni-ocular retinal pathology were compared. Quantification ...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Stanton AV,Wasan B,Cerutti A,Ford S,Marsh R,Sever PP,Thom SA,Hughes AD

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the natriuretic and diuretic response to frusemide in 33 male essential hypertensive patients as a function of basal renal sodium handling and erythrocyte transport system. METHODS:The natriuretic and diuretic response to an oral dose of frusemide (25 mg) was assessed with a simplified method. Uri...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Righetti M,Cusi D,Stella P,Rivera R,Bernardi L,del Vecchio L,Bianchi G

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of low doses of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring parameters in a group of mild essential hypertensives. PATIENTS:We studied 24 consecutive essential hypertensive patients from our outpatient clinic with mild hypertension (diastolic blood pres...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Russo C,Olivieri O,Girelli D,Azzini M,Stanzial AM,Guarini P,Friso S,De Franceschi L,Corrocher R

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Daily exposure to air-jet stress (AJS) causes sustained elevations of blood pressure in borderline hypertensive rats (BHR). It is known that the renin-angiotensin system is activated during episodes of behavioral stress, and the purpose of this study was to assess the involvement of renin-angiotensin system i...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Coste SC,Qi Y,Brooks VL,McCarron DA,Hatton DC

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect on quality of life in hypertensive men of a multiple risk factor intervention programme compared with that of usual care. DESIGN:A prospective, open, randomized, parallel-group study with allocation either to a comprehensive multiple risk factor modification programme or to usual care. ...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Agewall S,Wikstrand J,Dahlöf C,Fagerberg B

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN:The early phase of weight loss induced by fasting is associated with diuresis, natriuresis and reduction in blood pressure through unclear mechanisms. Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is a cardiac hormone with potent natriuretic, diuretic and hypotensive effects mediated by 'biologically active' re...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Sarzani R,Paci VM,Zingaretti CM,Pierleoni C,Cinti S,Cola G,Rappelli A,Dessì-Fulgheri P

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Transport activities of cardiac sodium-calcium exchange and sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase were measured biochemically in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) with hypertrophied myocardium and in normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and it was tested whether possible differences have consequences for ...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Lammerich A,Günther J,Pfitzer G,Storch E,Vetter R

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to assess the prognostic value of changes in left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive patients with time. DESIGN:Two hundred and fifteen uncomplicated hypertensive patients underwent a high-quality baseline echocardiogram for left ventricular anatomy evaluation and in 151...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Muiesan ML,Salvetti M,Rizzoni D,Castellano M,Donato F,Agabiti-Rosei E

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the role of ouabain in human hypertension and to establish whether immunoreactive endogenous ouabain is secreted by the adrenal gland under the influence of dopaminergic regulation. METHODS:We measured plasma levels of endogenous ouabain by immunoassay, together with other variables, including...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Rossi G,Manunta P,Hamlyn JM,Pavan E,De Toni R,Semplicini A,Pessina AC

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that vascular beta 2-adrenoceptor hyporesponsiveness in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) is not induced by increased blood pressure or venous hypertrophy. DESIGN:We compared the attenuating effects or isoprenaline, sodium nitroprusside and verapamilon the portal veins from Wistar-...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Doggrell SA,Surman AJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the benefits and risks of drinking alcohol in treated hypertensives. DESIGN:A prospective study of 6,369 hypertensives (3,161 men) attending primarily hospital clinics in the UK. METHODS:Relative risks both for drinkers compared with non-drinkers and for level of alcohol consumption were calcul...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Palmer AJ,Fletcher AE,Bulpitt CJ,Beevers DG,Coles EC,Ledingham JG,Petrie JC,Webster J,Dollery CT

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the characteristics and expression of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta receptor subtypes on vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. METHODS:The effects of TGF-beta 1 on DNA synthesis were evaluated by [3H]-th...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Fukuda N,Kubo A,Izumi Y,Soma M,Kanmatsuse K

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the factors affecting survival in patients with malignant hypertension by analysing the prognosis of all of the patients referred to the City Hospital, Birmingham, with malignant hypertension since 1965. RESULTS:We identified 315 patients with malignant hypertension (211 men, 104 women; mean a...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Lip GY,Beevers M,Beevers DG

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the regulation by angiotensin II and by steroids of the expression of the angiotensin II AT1a and AT1b receptor genes in rat hearts. METHODS:Endogenous levels of angiotensin II in the rats were increased either by unilateral 0.2-mm renal artery clips or by subcutaneous infusions of frusemide (12 m...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Della Bruna R,Ries S,Himmelstoss C,Kurtz A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：DESIGN:Because of uncertainties regarding the complete antihypertensive mechanism of action of beta-adrenoceptor antagonists, the present study determined whether vagal afferent neurons of humans and rats possess beta-adrenoceptors. Such a location would provide an appropriate target for beta-blockers to modulate neuro...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Lawrence AJ,Watkins D,Jarrott B

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of hypertension and diabetes mellitus on vascular albumin permeability and hypertrophy in 11-week-old Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) with and without 3 weeks of streptozotocin-induced diabetes. METHODS:Vascular albumin permeability was measured as...

journal_title：Journal of hypertension

authors： Hulthén UL,Rumble J,Cooper ME,Johnston CI

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00