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The national high blood pressure education program.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association.The article was published on 1974-04-01. It has received 1110 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health education.read more
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Early exposure to toxic metals has a limited effect on blood pressure or kidney function in later childhood, rural Bangladesh
Sophie Hawkesworth,Yukiko Wagatsuma,Maria Kippler,Anthony J. C. Fulford,Shams El Arifeen,Lars Åke Persson,Sophie E. Moore,Marie Vahter +7 more
TL;DR: There is some evidence that arsenic exposure in early life has long-term consequences for blood pressure and maybe kidney function, and no association was observed between early arsenic or cadmium exposure and kidney volume at 4.5 years.
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Antenatal and postnatal risk factors for neonatal hypertension and infant follow-up.
TL;DR: Antenatal steroid administration, maternal hypertension, umbilical arterial catheter, postnatal acute renal failure, patent ductus arteriosus, indomethacin treatment and chronic lung disease were associated with the development of neonatal hypertension.
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Tacrolimus: a new therapy for steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome in children
TL;DR: The results suggest that TAC is an effective therapeutic modality for SRNS, including the subgroup of children who are nonresponsive to the current therapeutic modalities like cyclophosphamide and cyclosporine.
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Cardiovascular risk factors in children with obesity, hypertension and diabetes: lipoprotein(a) levels and body mass index correlate with family history of cardiovascular disease
TL;DR: Levels of lipoprotein(a) and apolipoprotein B may be predictive of future cardiovascular disease in predisposed children in obese, hypertensive and diabetic children.
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Evaluation of compliance and health care utilization in patients treated with single pill vs. free combination antihypertensives.
Weiyi Yang,Joanne Chang,Kristijan H. Kahler,Thomas Fellers,John Orloff,Eric Q. Wu,Arielle G. Bensimon +6 more
TL;DR: SPC use was associated with significantly better compliance/persistence and fewer hospitalizations and ER visits than FC in hypertensive patients at the national level and in almost all states and larger reductions in medical costs with SPC use more than offset higher drug costs within most states.