Hypertension - Mortality
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Practice patterns, outcomes, and end-organ dysfunction for patients with acute severe hypertension: the Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension (STAT) registry.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Limited data are available on the care of patients with acute severe hypertension requiring hospitalization. We characterized contemporary practice patterns and outcomes for this population. METHODS: STAT is a 25-institution, US registry ... Read more...

Perioperative risk predictors of cardiac outcomes in patients undergoing liver transplantation surgery.

12 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Cardiac risk assessment for perioperative outcomes of liver transplantation patients is limited. We examined the outcomes of an older intermediate-cardiac-risk group of patients undergoing liver transplantation surgery. METHODS AND ... Read more...

Alcohol consumption, hypertension, and total mortality among women.

Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total mortality among Caucasian women. Whether moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total mortality among African-American or hypertensive ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hypertension - Mortality'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Relationship between alcohol consumption and total mortality in hypertensive women. 30 Oct 2009
• Practice patterns, outcomes, and end-organ dysfunction for patients with acute severe hypertension: the Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension (STAT) registry. 29 Sep 2009
• Perioperative risk predictors of cardiac outcomes in patients undergoing liver transplantation surgery. 12 Sep 2009
• Alcohol consumption, hypertension, and total mortality among women. Sep 2009
• Is there a heart rate paradox--demystification of the myths? 30 Aug 2009
• Cardioprotection with beta-blockers: myths, facts and Pascal's wager. 30 Aug 2009
• Pulse pressure, prehypertension, and mortality: the San Antonio heart study. 18 Aug 2009
• Health and mortality consequences of abdominal obesity: evidence from the AusDiab study. 15 Aug 2009
• Air temperature and the occurrence of myocardial infarction in Augsburg, Germany. 15 Aug 2009
• Atrial fibrillation significantly increases total mortality and stroke risk beyond that conveyed by the CHADS2 risk factors. 30 Jul 2009
• Beneficial impact of Xuezhikang on cardiovascular events and mortality in elderly hypertensive patients with previous myocardial infarction from the China Coronary Secondary Prevention Study (CCSPS). 30 Jul 2009
• Association of blood pressure increases during hemodialysis with 2-year mortality in incident hemodialysis patients: a secondary analysis of the Dialysis Morbidity and Mortality Wave 2 Study. 28 Jul 2009
• Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction failure to preserve, failure of reserve, and failure on the compliance curve. 26 Jul 2009
• Statins reduce appropriate cardioverter-defibrillator shocks and mortality in patients with heart failure and combined cardiac resynchronization and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy. 15 Jul 2009
• Long-term effects of weight-reducing drugs in hypertensive patients. 6 Jul 2009
• Treatment blood pressure targets for hypertension. 6 Jul 2009
• First-line drugs for hypertension. 6 Jul 2009
• Long-term risk of sustained hypertension in white-coat or masked hypertension. 27 Jun 2009
• High blood pressure in Latin America: a call to action. 24 Jun 2009
• Large and small artery cross-talk and recent morbidity-mortality trials in hypertension. 20 Jun 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