Hypertension

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Hypertension

General Information

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JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A family physician questions the conclusions from ALLHAT. (Am J Hypertens)

Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library)

American College of Sports Medicine position stand. Exercise and hypertension. (Med Sci Sports Exerc)

Analysis of late risk of systemic blood pressures <120/80 mm Hg. (Am J Cardiol)

ASSOCIATION OF HYPERTENSION WITH SYMPTOMS OF BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA. (J Urol)

Associations between plasma antioxidants and hypertension in a community-based sample of 415 Australians aged 60-64. (J Hum Hypertens)

Black and green tea polyphenols attenuate blood pressure increases in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. (J Nutr)

Blood pressure and late-life cognitive function change: a biracial longitudinal population study. (Neurology)

Blood pressure control and comorbidity in a nephrology clinic. (J Nephrol)

Blood pressure variability and silent cerebral damage in essential hypertension (American Journal of Hypertension )

Blunted nocturnal decline in blood pressure. (J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich))

Blunted reduction in night-time blood pressure is associated with cognitive deterioration in subjects with long-standing hypertension. (Blood Press Monit)

Cardiac hypertrophy in hypertension: relation to 24-h blood pressure profile and arterial stiffness. (Int J Cardiol)

Childhood Blood Pressure as a Predictor of Arterial Stiffness in Young Adults (Hypertension)

Chronic kidney disease and global cardiovascular risk in essential hypertension. (Minerva Med)

Clinical features and management of selected hypertensive emergencies. (J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich).)

Conjugated linoleic acid prevents the development of essential hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats. (Biochem Biophys Res Commun)

Effect of longer-term modest salt reduction on blood pressure (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library)

Effect of Untreated Hypertension on Hemorrhagic Stroke. (Stroke)

Epidemiology of postmenopausal hypertension. (Int J Clin Pract Suppl)

Evaluation of pulmonary arterial hypertension. (Curr Opin Cardiol)

Exercise intensity alters postexercise hypotension. (J Hypertens)

Exercise recommendations and risk factors for sudden cardiac death. (Pediatr Clin North Am)

Glucocorticoid excess and hypertension. (Curr Hypertens Rep)

Hypertension and concomitant diseases: a guide for evidence-based therapy. (J Natl Med Assoc)

Hypertension and the metabolic syndrome. (Curr Cardiol Rep)

Hypertension as a risk factor for glioma? Evidence from a population-based study of comorbidity in glioma patients (Annals of Oncology)

Hypertension in black patients: special issues and considerations. (Curr Cardiol Rep)

Hypertension in overweight and obese primary care patients is highly prevalent and poorly controlled. (Am J Hypertens)

Hypertension in the elderly. (Curr Hypertens Rep)

Hypertension in women. (Am J Hypertens)

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. (J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs)

Low-Grade Inflammation and Microalbuminuria in Hypertension. (Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol)

Midlife Blood Pressure and the Risk of Hippocampal Atrophy (Hypertension)

Obesity and hypertension: two epidemics or one? (Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol)

Oxidative stress in essential hypertension. (Curr Pharm Des)

Plasma levels of homocysteine in patients with white-coat hypertension. (Int J Clin Pract)

Prevalence of erectile dysfunction among 7689 patients with diabetes or hypertension, or both. (Urology)

Prospective cohort study of retinal vessel diameters and risk of hypertension. (BMJ)

[Risk factors for cognitive impairment] (Recenti Prog Med)

Silent cerebral white matter lesions and cognitive function in middle-aged essential hypertensive patients. (Am J Hypertens)

Systolic blood pressure It's time to take control. (Am J Hypertens)

The Association Between Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Cerebral White Matter Lesions. The Cardiovascular Determinants of Dementia Study. (Hypertension)

The burden of adult hypertension in the United States 1999 to 2000: a rising tide. (Hypertension)

The paradigm has shifted to systolic blood pressure. (J Hum Hypertens)

The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension among US adults according to the new joint national committee guidelines: new challenges of the old problem. (Arch Intern Med)

The Relationship Between Blood Pressure and Cognitive Performance in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). (Psychosom Med)

[The significance of arterial hypertension for the development of dementia] (MMW Fortschr Med)

Tooth loss is associated with an increased risk of hypertension in postmenopausal women. (Hypertension)

Vascular stiffening and arterial compliance Implications for systolic blood pressure. (Am J Hypertens)

White-coat hypertension: a clinical review. (Eur J Intern Med)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH-High Blood Pressure

NIH-Hypertension Tutorial

NIH-Medical Encyclopedia Drug-induced hypertension

NIH-Medical Encyclopedia: Essential hypertension

NIH-Medical Encyclopedia Hypertension

NIH-Medical Encyclopedia Hypertension Image

NIH-Medical Encyclopedia Untreated hypertension

NIH-NHLBI Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7)

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