Showing papers in "American Journal of Hypertension in 2014"

TL;DR: Several modifiable lifestyle activities were associated with hypertension and thus should be considered potential targets for intervention, with special attention to socioeconomically disadvantaged subpopulations in China.

TL;DR: Both low sodium intakes and high sodium intakes are associated with increased mortality, consistent with a U-shaped association between sodium intake and health outcomes.

TL;DR: Overall, available evidence from RCTs indicates that provision of EPA+DHA reduces systolic blood pressure, while provision of ≥2 grams reduces diastolicBlood pressure.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that interventions to extend sleep and improve sleep quality could serve as effective primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive measures for hypertension is raised.

TL;DR: It is suggested that maxacalcitol attenuates the progression of diabetic nephropathy by suppression of oxidative stress and amelioration of the Nrf2-Keap1 pathway in nonobese type 2 diabetes without significant changes in blood pressure and glomerular filtration rate.

TL;DR: A significant deficit in treatment and control of hypertension among Hispanics/Latinos residing in the United States, particularly those without health insurance is indicated.

TL;DR: Dietary pulses significantly lowered BP in people with and without hypertension, and higher-quality large-scale trials are needed to support these findings.

TL;DR: Daily exposure to IPC for 7 days leads to local and remote improvements in brachial artery FMD and resting skin microcirculation that remain after cessation of the intervention and beyond the late phase of protection.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that GLP-1 analogs reduce sitting blood pressure (SBP) using a meta-analytic approach that may support potentially favorable long-term cardiovascular outcomes.

TL;DR: Resistant hypertensive patients had a very high prevalence of OSA, and patients with moderate/severe OSA had an adverse ambulatory BP profile, with higher nighttime systolic blood pressures and pulse pressures and higher prevalence of nondipping patterns.

TL;DR: Nondipping is related to more advanced disease (reduced renal function and clinical evidence of cardiovascular disease), whereas nocturnal hypertension is associated with albuminuria, which means the worst cardiovascular risk profile is present in patients exhibiting both noCTurnal hypertension and nondipping.

TL;DR: The present meta-analysis, the largest to date focusing on cardiac structural and functional changes in morbidly obese subjects after bariatric surgery, documents that this therapeutic approach exerts important cardioprotective effects in terms of regression of LV hypertrophy, improvement of LV geometry and diastolic function, and reduction of left atrial size.

TL;DR: Experimental findings support the concept that the balance between T cell-induced inflammation and T cell suppressor responses is critical for the regulation of blood pressure levels and the role of acquired immunity.

TL;DR: Catheter-based renal denervation with the St. Jude Medical EnligHTN system lowers BP in obese dogs without significantly compromising renal function.

TL;DR: Larger studies are required to confirm the emerging but low-quality evidence that yoga may be a useful adjunct intervention in the management of hypertension.

TL;DR: Changes in dietary habits, weight, and BP persisted for 8 months after completion of the 16-week ENCORE program, with some attenuation of the benefits.

TL;DR: MBSR did not lower ambulatory BP by a statistically or clinically significant amount in untreated, stage 1 hypertensive patients when compared with a wait-list control group, and leaves untested whether MBSR might be useful for lowering BP by improving adherence in treated hypertensive participants.

TL;DR: In elderly patients treated for hypertension, high MS in SBP predicts stroke in dippers but not in nondippers, and Nondippers are at high stroke risk with or without MS >23mm Hg.

TL;DR: More than one-third of the hypertensive subjects are unaware of their condition, and more than two-thirds are uncontrolled, suggesting a higher level of attention to the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension is mandatory in this setting.

TL;DR: Increased ABP variability was associated with small vessel disease (SVD) progression, particularly in individuals with SVD at baseline, and higher systolic ARV predicted SVD progression and cognitive decline.

TL;DR: In this article, the long-term efficacy and safety of low sodium intake in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) was investigated. But, the association with low intake (vs. moderate) is uncertain, with inconsistent findings from cohort studies.

TL;DR: This study shows for the first time an association between quantitatively assessed retinal abnormalities and increased arterial stiffness in a sample of early-stage hypertensive and normotensive individuals, suggesting that micro- and macrocirculation impairment in hypertension is a dynamic, mutual, interdependent process present from its very early stages.

TL;DR: Morning BP and evening BP provide equally useful information for subclinical target organ damage, yet multivariate modeling highlighted the stand-alone predictive ability of morning BP.

TL;DR: CGJ consumption improved endothelial function and vascular elastic properties of the arterial tree in healthy smokers and attenuated acute smoking-induced impairment of arterial wall properties.

TL;DR: New evidence is provided that direct AT2 receptor stimulation with C21 is a novel therapeutic approach to prevent ischemic brain damage after acute stroke.

TL;DR: In this article, the brain renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) plays a crucial role in the regulation of blood pressure (BP) by the circulating RAAS.

TL;DR: Short-term cold exposure increases central aortic blood pressure and cardiac workload, and myocardial oxygen demand slightly increases in relation to blood supply in untreated hypertensive middle-aged men.

TL;DR: A key intermediary role for resting heart rate is attributed in the relationship between fitness and arterial stiffness, whereby higher cardiorespiratory fitness might have deleterious effects on arterial stiffening that are partially offset by lower restingheart rate.

TL;DR: Distributions in access to care among US hypertensive adults, approximately 20% reported access-to-care challenges, with significant geographic and sociodemographic variations.

TL;DR: The study findings suggest that the multimodal Self-Help Intervention Program on the Control of HBP is effective at promoting optimal HBP control for this ethnic/linguistic minority population.