Hypertension - Complications
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Risk factors for heart failure: a population-based case-control study.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: The relative contribution of risk factors to the development of heart failure remains controversial. Further, whether these contributions have changed over time or differ by sex is unclear. Few population-based studies have been ... Read more...

Harmonizing the metabolic syndrome: a joint interim statement of the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; American Heart Association; World Heart Federation; International Atherosclerosis Society; and International Association for the Study of Obesity.

3 Oct 2009 A cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus, which occur together more often than by chance alone, have become known as the metabolic syndrome. The risk factors include raised blood pressure, dyslipidemia ... Read more...

Adherence to antihypertensive medications and cardiovascular morbidity among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients.

3 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Nonadherence to antihypertensive treatment is a common problem in cardiovascular prevention and may influence prognosis. We explored predictors of adherence to antihypertensive treatment and the association of adherence with acute ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hypertension - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Clinical problem-solving. A bloody mystery. 3 Nov 2009
• Risk factors for heart failure: a population-based case-control study. 30 Oct 2009
• [68-year-old patient with syncope caused by climbing stairs] 19 Oct 2009
• Ageotropic central positional nystagmus in nodular infarction. 4 Oct 2009
• Harmonizing the metabolic syndrome: a joint interim statement of the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; American Heart Association; World Heart Federation; International Atherosclerosis Society; and International Association for the Study of Obesity. 3 Oct 2009
• Adherence to antihypertensive medications and cardiovascular morbidity among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients. 3 Oct 2009
• Hypertension correlates with lenticulostriate arteries visualized by 7T magnetic resonance angiography. 3 Oct 2009
• Clinical experience in treating hypertension with fixed-dose combination therapy: angiotensin II receptor blocker losartan plus hydrochlorothiazide. 29 Sep 2009
• Blood pressure as a prognostic factor after acute stroke. 29 Sep 2009
• Clinical foundation for efficient treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. 29 Sep 2009
• Renal and retinal effects of enalapril and losartan in type 1 diabetes. 29 Sep 2009
• Impact of systemic hypertension on the diagnostic performance of B-type natriuretic peptide in patients with acute dyspnea. 29 Sep 2009
• Long-term risk in subjects with white-coat hypertension. 26 Sep 2009
• A high-fat diet increases adiposity but maintains mitochondrial oxidative enzymes without affecting development of heart failure with pressure overload. 16 Sep 2009
• Blood pressure control determines improvement in diastolic dysfunction in early hypertension. 15 Sep 2009
• Effects of diabetes mellitus, pressure-overload and their association on myocardial structure and function. 8 Sep 2009
• [Effects of antihypertensive drugs on glucose metabolism and cardiovascular events] 8 Sep 2009
• [Hypertension in solid organ transplants] 7 Sep 2009
• Renal impairment of pure autonomic failure. 6 Sep 2009
• Baseline values but not treatment-induced changes in carotid intima-media thickness predict incident cardiovascular events in treated hypertensive patients: findings in the European Lacidipine Study on Atherosclerosis (ELSA). 6 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Hypertension'

Definition: Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more.

Descriptor UI: D006973

Alternative terms: Hypertension; Blood Pressure, High; Blood Pressures, High; High Blood Pressure; High Blood Pressures;

Related Mesh Headings: Antihypertensive Agents; Vascular Resistance;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C14.907.489;

Technical Notes: not for intracranial or intraocular pressure; relation to BLOOD PRESSURE: Manuel23.27; Goldblatt kidney or Goldblatt hypertension is HYPERTENSION, GOLDBLATT see HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; hypertension with kidney disease is probably HYPERTENSION, RENAL, not HYPERTENSION; venous hypertension: index under VENOUS PRESSURE (IM) & do not coordinate with HYPERTENSION