Hypertension - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort study.

6 Nov 2008 BACKGROUND: How much the successful implementation of the most effective (ie, best-practice) interventions could reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality is not known. We assessed this issue in an occupational cohort ... Read more...

Sexual dysfunction: the 'prima ballerina' of hypertension-related quality-of-life complications.

30 Oct 2008 Sexual dysfunction is currently considered a serious quality-of-life-related health problem, exerting a major impact on patients' and their sexual partners' life. Available data indicate that essential hypertension is a risk factor for sexual ... Read more...

Uric acid: bystander or culprit in hypertension and progressive renal disease?

30 Oct 2008 In humans, uric acid is the main urinary metabolite of purines. Serum levels are higher compared with other mammalians. Uric acid is an antioxidant and perhaps helps to control blood pressure during a low Na+ diet through stimulation of the ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Hypertension'

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• Can we eliminate inequalities in coronary disease? Absolutely. 6 Nov 2008
• Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort study. 6 Nov 2008
• Sexual dysfunction: the 'prima ballerina' of hypertension-related quality-of-life complications. 30 Oct 2008
• Uric acid: bystander or culprit in hypertension and progressive renal disease? 30 Oct 2008
• Sluggish genes and hypertension. 30 Oct 2008
• Arterial stiffness and renal transplantation. 30 Oct 2008
• The Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial: blood pressure-lowering limb: effects in patients with type II diabetes. 30 Oct 2008
• Anthropometric and dietary determinants of blood pressure in over 7000 Mediterranean women: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Florence cohort. 30 Oct 2008
• Interindividual variation in serum sodium and longitudinal blood pressure tracking in the Framingham Heart Study. 30 Oct 2008
• Hypertension in an urban HIV-positive population compared with the general population: influence of combination antiretroviral therapy. 30 Oct 2008
• The KCNMB1 Glu65Lys polymorphism associates with reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure in the Inter99 study of 5729 Danes. 30 Oct 2008
• Genetic variation in the KCNMA1 potassium channel alpha subunit as risk factor for severe essential hypertension and myocardial infarction. 30 Oct 2008
• Genetic variation in the ASIC3 gene influences blood pressure levels in Taiwanese. 30 Oct 2008
• Anthropometric and metabolic phenotypes in relation to the ADRA2B deletion/insertion polymorphism in Chinese population. 30 Oct 2008
• Association of tumor necrosis factor-alpha with early target organ damage in newly diagnosed patients with essential hypertension. 30 Oct 2008
• Multiple sampling improves norepinephrine reproducibility in essential hypertension: a comparison with the microneurographic technique. 30 Oct 2008
• Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, adiponectin and insulin resistance in dipper and nondipper essential hypertensive patients. 30 Oct 2008
• Reference values of aortic pulse wave velocity in the elderly. 30 Oct 2008
• Clinical profile and management of hypertensive patients with chronic ischemic heart disease and renal dysfunction attended by cardiologists in daily clinical practice. 30 Oct 2008
• Do psychological attributes matter for adherence to antihypertensive medication? The Finnish Public Sector Cohort Study. 30 Oct 2008

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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