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Richard Lewanczuk

Researcher at Alberta Health Services

Publications -  196
Citations -  9110

Richard Lewanczuk is an academic researcher from Alberta Health Services. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blood pressure & Health care. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 190 publications receiving 8105 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Lewanczuk include University of Alberta & University of Hong Kong.

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The 2015 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, assessment of risk, prevention, and treatment of hypertension.

Kaberi Dasgupta, +68 more
TL;DR: The Canadian Hypertension Education Program reviews the hypertension literature annually and provides detailed recommendations regarding hypertension diagnosis, assessment, prevention, and treatment, and 4 new recommendations were added and 2 existing recommendations were modified this year.
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Hypertension Canada’s 2018 Guidelines for Diagnosis, Risk Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension in Adults and Children

Kara Nerenberg, +82 more
TL;DR: All individuals with hypertension should have an assessment of global cardiovascular risk to promote health behaviours that lower blood pressure, and an angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor combination should be used in place of either an ang Elliotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotENSin receptor blocker in individuals with heart failure.
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Hypertension Canada's 2016 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Guidelines for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension

Alexander A. Leung, +77 more
TL;DR: In the diagnosis and assessment of hypertension, automated office blood pressure, taken without patient-health provider interaction, is now recommended as the preferred method of measuring in-office blood pressure as mentioned in this paper.
Patent

Method of using deuterated calcium channel blockers

TL;DR: In this article, a method of enhancing the efficiency and increasing the duration of action of drugs (e.g., dihydropyridines and anti-bacterials) and particularly of nifedipine and penicillins wherein one or more hydrogen atoms are deuterated was presented.
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Hypertension Canada's 2020 Comprehensive Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, Risk Assessment, and Treatment of Hypertension in Adults and Children.

Doreen M. Rabi, +81 more
TL;DR: The 2020 guidelines include new guidance on themanagement of resistant hypertension and the management of hypertension in women planning pregnancy.