Socioeconomic and lifestyle factors influencing non-communicable disease prevalence among rural Jamaican adults: a population-based study.
INTRODUCTION: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent a major public health challenge in Jamaica, particularly within rural communities where socioeconomic and infrastructural barriers may heighten...
Effect of antihypertensive medication reduction on short-term blood pressure control in older adults: calibration of OPTiMISE trial results to real-world primary care data.
BACKGROUND: While antihypertensive treatment prevents cardiovascular events, it may also increase risks such as falls in patients with frailty. The Optimising Treatment for Mild Systolic Hypertension ...
Clinical characteristics of acupoint sensitization in patients with essential hypertension: a cross-sectional matched case-control study.
OBJECTIVE: To observe the characteristics of acupoint sensitization in patients with essential hypertension, analyze the mechanical pain threshold and tenderness threshold of each acupoint, and summar...
Clinicopathological profile, risk factors and outcome of adult biopsy-proven infection-related glomerulonephritis: A single centre prospective study.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinicopathological profile, risk factors and outcomes of biopsy-proven infection-related glomerulonephritis. METHODS: The prospective, cross-sectional, observational study wa...
[What do Swiss doctors think about cardiovascular risk factors and guidelines?].
While cardiovascular diseases are highly prevalent, their risk factors, especially hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus, are also very treatable with medication. Nevertheless, only a co...
Oral Health and Cardiovascular Disease Among Hypertensive Medicated Adults With Uncontrolled Blood Pressure.
Oral diseases and masticatory dysfunction are more prevalent in hypertensive patients and may hinder blood pressure (BP) control during pharmacological treatment. However, the effect of the oral funct...
Neighborhood Disinvestment and Racial Disparities in Early Hypertension Onset Among Women.
IMPORTANCE: Although Black women are known to have higher hypertension rates than White women, longitudinal investigations of racial disparities in early hypertension onset and the role of neighborhoo...
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in the Elderly: Rare Indications but Good Tolerability.
Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is used for a wide range of indications and is associated with well-described adverse events. However, no study has specifically focused on tolerance in elderly patie...
Efficacy and Safety of Baxdrostat for Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Three Phase 2/3 Randomized Controlled Trials.
BACKGROUND: Baxdrostat is a selective aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) inhibitor for treatment-resistant and uncontrolled hypertension, evaluated in phase 2/3 RCTs. OBJECTIVES: To estimate pooled placeb...
Effect of Health Literacy on use of a Virtual Coach to Promote Home Blood Pressure Monitoring.
Health literacy and hypertension control are more limited in rural U.S. residents relative to metropolitan counterparts. Contemporary hypertension guidelines advocate for health education and home blo...
Blood Flow Restriction Training Reduces Hemodynamic Load and Improves Cardiovascular Biomarkers in Runners with Exercise-Induced Hypertension.
Exercise-induced hypertension (EIH) is associated with elevated risks of arrhythmia, coronary artery disease, arterial stiffness, and sudden cardiac death. Blood flow restriction (BFR) training has be...
Antihypertensive Potential of Selected Edible Sources From the Northeastern Highlands of Puebla Mexico and Their Main Phenolic Compounds.
Herein, we report on the anti-human angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) properties of 31 hydroethanolic extracts from the edible organs of 30 edible plants consumed in the Northeastern Highlands of Pu...
Effect of Body Mass Index on the Efficacy and Safety of Esaxerenone Versus Trichlormethiazide for the Treatment of Japanese Patients with Uncontrolled Essential Hypertension: A Subanalysis of the Excite-HT Study.
This prespecified, exploratory, body mass index (BMI)-stratified analysis of the randomized, open-label EXCITE-HT study examined whether esaxerenone elicits a blood pressure (BP)-lowering effect simil...
Factors Associated With Evidence of Self-Measured Blood Pressure Adoption in an Urban Safety-Net Health System.
Uncontrolled hypertension is a leading cause of preventable cardiovascular mortality. Although self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring is recommended by evidence-based guidelines, adoption rema...
Minimal Perceived Discomfort During Oscillometric Blood Pressure Measurement in Children: A Cross-Sectional Study With Implications for Systematic Screening.
Routine blood pressure measurement in children has been proposed for systematic screening, but concerns remain regarding potential harm, including procedural discomfort. This has not previously been s...
The Association Between Plasma Atherogenic Index Control Level and the Onset of Hypertension in Chinese Children and Adolescents.
The association of atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) control level with hypertension onset in children was still unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association between AIP control levels and...
Diastolic Morning Surge Improves Risk Stratification for Subclinical Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Ambulatory-Defined Isolated Diastolic Hypertension.
Isolated diastolic hypertension (IDH) is frequently considered a lower-risk phenotype due to preserved systolic pressure; however, sustained ambulatory diastolic load may promote early myocardial remo...
Standard modifiable cardiovascular risk factors and acute coronary syndrome free survival.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Recent studies suggest that patients without standard modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (SMuRFs), hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, or smoking, may experience hig...
Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and Hypertension: Genetic Liability and the Role of Metabolic Factors.
BACKGROUND: Whether sedentary behavior and physical activity causally influence hypertension remains uncertain. We used Mendelian randomization (MR) to examine whether genetically predicted domain-spe...
Oxygen Supplementation Improves Oxygen Uptake Kinetics and Exercise Performance in PAH and CTEPH Patients.
AIM: We studied the effect of O2 supplementation on physiological responses to exercise in patients with pulmonary vascular disease. METHODS: Six patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), f...