Showing papers in "American Journal of Hypertension in 2017"

TL;DR: The treatment of HTN in 2014 predominantly involved older medications in 5 major classes of drugs: ACEIs, thiazide diuretics, ARBs, CCBs, and beta-blockers, and selection of antihypertensive agents showed limited variation by age, gender, race, and insurance type.

TL;DR: In a community-based, middle-aged population, Orthostatic hypotension and in particular, postural change in DBP were independent risk factors for falls over 2 decades of follow-up.

TL;DR: A simple, low-cost, web-delivered sleep intervention is feasible and significantly improves sleep quality and measures of psychosocial health in individuals with mild sleep impairment but does not result in short-term improvements in blood pressure.

TL;DR: Regular sauna bathing is associated with reduced risk of hypertension, which may be a mechanism underlying the decreased cardiovascular risk associated with sauna use.

TL;DR: Seventeen percent of US adults engaged in monthly or more frequent HBPM and health care providers' recommendations to engage in HBPM have a significant impact on the frequency of HBPM.

TL;DR: This study shows lower wealth and educational status are important in low hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in South Asia.

TL;DR: The overall evidence now overwhelmingly shows that ambulatory BP monitoring is mandatory for the proper management of HT and health care providers should facilitate access to this technique in both primary and specialized care.

TL;DR: Antithrombotic prevention in AF combined with strict blood pressure control is of primary importance, since stroke risk and bleeding risk are both greater with underlying hypertension, which further drives the remodeling process in AF.

TL;DR: Physiologically individualized therapy based on renin/aldosterone phenotyping significantly improved blood pressure control in a sample of African patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

TL;DR: The findings suggest chronic stress is related to endothelial dysfunction, possibly in part through other stress-associated CVD risk factors such as cigarette smoking.

TL;DR: If malignant hypertension still poses a clinically relevant and challenging form of hypertension and its possibility should be always considered during the assessment of patients with poorly controlled hypertension is discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multiethnic cohort of 66 participants with type 2 diabetes was enrolled with high-fidelity arterial tonometry (Sphygmocor Device), and the levels of inactive MGP (dephospho-uncarboxylated MGP; dp-ucMGP) were measured with ELISA (VitaK).

TL;DR: In a large cohort of CKD participants, multiple significant correlations between initial markers of inflammation and metrics of arterial stiffness are observed, but baseline inflammation did not predict changes in arterial stiffening over time.

TL;DR: A phenotypic approach to investigating the genetic architecture of RHT uncovered a surprisingly high yield of variants in candidate genes, suggesting that this novel approach may assist in understanding the genetic Architecture of R HT in Blacks and explain their two fold risk of stroke.

TL;DR: Although mean differences from 2-observer auscultation were acceptable, when tested on their owners, most home BP devices were not accurate to within 5 mm Hg, suggesting acceptable accuracy of the device-owner pairing should be prioritized.

TL;DR: Baseline Cornell voltage LVH is associated with increased CV morbidity and all-cause mortality in treated hypertensive patients independent of treatment modality and other CV risk factors.

TL;DR: Sacubitril/valsartan is more effective than olmesartan in reducing BP in elderly Asian patients with systolic hypertension, and reductions from baseline in other BP and PP assessments were significantly greater with sacubitrill/valsArtan.

TL;DR: A rising trend in hospitalization for HTNE, with an overall decrease in in-hospital mortality was observed from 2002 to 2012, possibly related to changes in coding practices and improved management.

TL;DR: Clinical findings demonstrating substantive benefit of aldosterone antagonists in patients with resistant hypertension, but without demonstrative evidence of hyperaldosteronism, suggest spironolactone is clearly established as the most effective fourth agent for treatment of uncontrolled resistant hypertension.

TL;DR: The incidences of stroke/SE and bleeding were higher in AF and hypertension patients with elevated SBP and HTN-LBP group was not associated with the risk of stroke or major bleeding, compared with the non-HTN group.

TL;DR: In this large cohort of African American women, higher ozone levels were associated with an increase in hypertension incidence, and higher NO2 levels were not associated with greater hypertension incidence; indeed, incidence was lower at higher No2 levels.

TL;DR: In elderly treated hypertensive patients evaluated by ambulatory BP monitoring, compared to individuals with CH, those with MUCH have significantly higher risk and those with WCUCH have slightly and not significantlyHigher risk.

TL;DR: Estimation of the aortic pulse wave velocity is feasible with a bathroom scale combining the principles of ballistocardiography and impedance plethysmography on a single foot.

TL;DR: The prevalence of hypertension was found high in semi-urban area of western Nepal and a number of risk factors were identified as possible drivers of this burden.

TL;DR: Visit-to-visit DBP variability and considerable changes in DBP and SBP were risk factors for mortality in the elderly and were related to higher all-cause and CV mortality.

TL;DR: The measured biomarkers of cell damage, angiogenesis, and antiangiogenesis may reflect the severity of PE, with higher levels in patients who develop HELLP syndrome, and these biomarkers may also help predict adverse fetal and maternal outcomes.

TL;DR: It is hypothesize that TG2 is an essential participant in cytokine-induced hypertension and selective TG2 inhibitors have the potential to be pharmacologic weapons in the fight against hypertension.

TL;DR: Possible hemodynamic consequences of the presence of microvascular structural alterations will be considered, in terms of their time of onset, role in the development and/or maintenance of high blood pressure values, and interrelationships with structural/mechanical alterations of large conductance arteries.

TL;DR: MAP and PP have distinct characteristics affecting all-cause mortality, and PP integrates the effects of age and gender on all- Cause mortality more notably than MAP, thus impacting significantly on cardiovascular risk.