Showing papers in "American Journal of Hypertension in 2008"

TL;DR: The observation of a small but consistent increase in preeclampsia is a conservative indication of a true population-level change in the United States, and may be exaggerated because of the revised clinical guidelines published in the 1990s.

TL;DR: The volume-pressure recording (VPR) tail-cuff method provides accurate blood pressure measurements over the physiological range of blood pressure in mice by comparison to simultaneous radiotelemetry measurements.

TL;DR: Hypertensive women are significantly more likely to be treated than men, but less likely to have achieved BP control, and additional efforts may be needed to achieve therapeutic goals for the US hypertensive population, especially for hypertensive women.

TL;DR: Data from the few large comparative studies suggest that certain classes of antihypertensive drugs and/or their combinations are more effective than others, and Guidelines, therefore, have recommended these drug classes for the treatment of hypertensive patients with LVH.

TL;DR: The regular practice of Transcendental Meditation may have the potential to reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure by approximately 4.7 and 3.2 mm Hg, respectively, which are clinically meaningful changes.

TL;DR: A practice-based MINT counseling led to steady maintenance of medication adherence over time, compared to significant decline in adherence for UC patients, and was associated with a modest, nonsignificant trend toward a net reduction in systolic BP in favor of the MINT group.

TL;DR: This review deals with the major relevant findings related to the cardiovascular and metabolic effects of natriuretic peptides, to their potential therapeutic use, and to their role in mediating cardiovascular diseases.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that ABPM is a better predictor of cardiovascular risk than clinic BP, and that this holds true for patients with or without T2DM.

TL;DR: The possibility that common pathophysiologic mechanisms underly these diseases is intriguing, and if better understood, could potentially lead to better therapies for stone prevention.

TL;DR: Blunted diurnal BP variation is a strong predictor of death, but this may be accounted for, in large part, by its association with other cardiovascular risk factors.

TL;DR: In middle-aged and elderly patients, increased arterial stiffness and wave reflections are consistently and independently associated with impaired systolic and diastolic function and with functional limitations.

TL;DR: The prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension is high, and the rates of awareness, treatment, and control are unacceptably low, underscore the urgent need to develop national strategies to improve prevention, detection, and treatment of hypertension in Iran.

TL;DR: It is suggested thatLosartan inhibited URAT1 and thereby it lowered Sur levels in hypertensive patients, and both losartan and benzbromarone increased Cur/Ccr ratio in hypertension patients harboring the wild URAT 1 gene, regardless of the presence of hypouricemia.

TL;DR: The presence of MH seems to be a matter of a coincidently low office BP value not related to certain subject characteristics although the chance of its presence may be increased by smoking and antihypertensive treatment.

TL;DR: In a population sample with a high prevalence of obesity, excess adiposity promotes concentric, rather than eccentric LV geometric changes, effects which are independent of conventional, central artery or 24-h BP measured on a single occasion.

TL;DR: Among patients treated for hypertension, uncontrolled elevated SBP and SBP <120 mm Hg were associated with an increased risk of incident AF.

TL;DR: The beta-blockers, atenolol and nebivolol, have a similar effect in reducing arterial stiffness in the large elastic aorta, largely secondary to BP reduction.

TL;DR: This prospective cohort data suggests that cigarette smoking may be a modest but important risk factor for the development of hypertension.

TL;DR: The results of this study indicate that placental ischemia decreases innate antioxidant activity resulting in elevated oxidative stress which appears to play a role in mediating hypertension associated with chronic RUPP in pregnant rats.

TL;DR: Confirmed hypertension and MH are common conditions in patients who visit hypertension outpatient clinics and are accompanied by increased LVM index and cIMT, even after adjusting for other risk factors.

TL;DR: An increase in ROS activity upregulates NOS expression in vitro in HCAECs grown in culture, and also in vivo in animals.

TL;DR: DeltaE(w) appears to be directly and positively associated with LVH in untreated hypertensive patients, and the amplitude and duration of the reflected wave, rather than its travel time, are probably responsible for this association.

TL;DR: Findings of reduced preeclampsia risk with higher total fiber intake corroborate an earlier report and expand the literature by providing evidence, which suggests that dietary fiber may attenuate pregnancy-associated dyslipidemia, an important clinical characteristic of preeClampsia.

TL;DR: The fructose-fed SDR model represents a predominantly environmentally acquired MS, whereas the SHR model is less affected by dietary intervention and better displays the predominantly genetic spontaneous appearance of the syndrome.

TL;DR: Cigarette smoke exposure may decrease the risk of preeclampsia in part by moderating the anti-angiogenic phenotype observed in the syndrome.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the cardioprotective mechanism of telmisartan may be partly due to improvement of endothelial function associated with PPAR-gamma-eNOS, oxidative stress, and Rho-kinase pathway.

TL;DR: High risk for OSAS assessed by the Berlin Questionnaire is highly prevalent and associated with resistant hypertension.

TL;DR: Hypertension awareness and treatment is lower among the young (20-39 years), the uninsured, individuals reporting fewer health risk factors, and adults with less exposure and utilization of health care.

TL;DR: Candelesartan, an ARB, improves EPC dysfunction and increases cardiac c-kit expression through the anti-oxidative mechanism in hypertension.

TL;DR: It is suggested that both aging and hypertension are risk factors for reduced number of EPCs and that Renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors increase the number ofEPCs.