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Alvin P. Shapiro
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Publications - 159
Citations - 5358
Alvin P. Shapiro is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blood pressure & Plasma renin activity. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 159 publications receiving 5275 citations. Previous affiliations of Alvin P. Shapiro include University of Washington.
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The 1984 Report of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
Robert M. Carey,Jeffrey A. Cutler,William T. Friedewald,Norman Gant,Stephen B. Hulley,James Iacono,M. H. Maxwell,Donald McNellis,Gerald H. Payne,Alvin P. Shapiro,Stephen M. Weiss,Harriet P. Dustan,Aram V. Chobanian,Bonita Falkner,Thomas F. Ferris,Edward D. Frohlich,Ray W. Gifford,Martha N. Hill,Michel Ibrahim,Norman M Kaplan,Ophelia Long,Harry Metcalf,Marvin Moser,William A. Nickey,H. Mitchell Perry,Gerald E. Thomson,Michael J. Horan,Edward J. Roccella,Ann E. Bowler,Frances W. Gillen +29 more
TL;DR: This report includes recommendations on the following topics: screening and referral procedures, classification according to BPs, use of nonpharmacologic therapies, revised stepped-care approach, management of mild hypertension, and management of BP in special groups, including blacks, children, and pregnant.
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Outcome of renal crisis in systemic sclerosis: relation to availability of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.
TL;DR: Improved survival and successful discontinuation of dialysis are possible when ACE inhibitors are used to treat scleroderma renal crisis and patients with systemic sclerosis who develop hypertension should be treated with an ACE inhibitor.
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The Effect of Treatment on Mortality in Mild Hypertension: Results of the Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program
Elbert Tuttle,Vickie Grimes,Aristide Apostolidcs,J. Richard Hebel,Albert Oberman,Harold W. Schnaper,James Kitts,Edward H. Kass,James O. Taylor,B. Frank Polk,Jeremiah Stamler,Rose Stamler,Flora C. Gosch,Davis Calif,Nemato Borhani,Marshall Lee,Beth Newman,Jack W. Jones,Sandra A. Daughcrty,Curtis G. Hames,Siegfried Heyden,H. A. Tyroler,Lawrence M. Slotkoff,Charles McCauley,Ro Lee,Herbert G. Langford,Myra Tyler,John D. Abernethy,Morton H. Maxwell,Andrew J. Lewin,Roger Detels,Reuben Berman,Ronald J. Prineas,Richard S. Crow,M. Donald Blaufox,Wassertheil Smoller Sylvia,Jeanne Hotchkiss,Hilmon Castle,Irving Ershler,Josephine Kastelet,Morton Hawkins,J. David Curb,Robert J. Hardy,Kenneth A. Schneider,Agostino Molteni,Edward Filzsimons,Wallace Williams,William J. Zukel,Gerald H. Payne,Alvin P. Shapiro,Glenn E. Bartsch,Kenneth G. Berge,Edward S. Cooper,Edward D. Frohlich,Richard H. Gadsden,David L. Sacken,Joseph A. Wilber,McFatc Smith,Walter M. Kirkendall,Curtis L. Meinert,Louis S. Monk,Richard D. Remington,Thomas P. Blaszkowski,Max Halperin,George Entwisle +64 more
TL;DR: The beneficial effect of stepped-care treatment on persons with diastolic pressures who had no evidence of end-organ damage and were not receiving antihypertensive medication when they entered the study is supported.
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Factors predicting development of renal involvement in progressive systemic sclerosis
Virginia D. Steen,Thomas A. Medsger,Thaddeus A. Osial,Gayle L. Ziegler,Alvin P. Shapiro,Gerald P. Rodnan +5 more
TL;DR: The subset of patients with diffuse scleroderma who show rapid progression of their skin thickening early in the illness with development of anemia, pericardial effusion, or congestive heart failure have a high risk of "scleroderMA renal crisis."
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Hypertension and renal failure (scleroderma renal crisis) in progressive systemic sclerosis. Review of a 25-year experience with 68 cases.
Y. M. Traub,Alvin P. Shapiro,Gerald P. Rodnan,Thomas A. Medsger,Robert H. McDonald,Virgina D. Steen,Thaddeus A. Osial,Sanford F. Tolchin +7 more
TL;DR: The experiences of this group with 68 patients with progressive systemic sclerosis admitted to hospitals of the University of Pittsburgh Health Center between 1955 and 1981 with scleroderma renal crisis are reported, finding that normal renal function can be restored in a number of patients.