High Blood Pressure
a common disease in which blood pressure remains abnormally high
The findings led to an early halt of a small study comparing Niaspan and Zetia, two compounds commonly used along with statins to reduce heart attack risk ORLANDO, Fla. Adding a pharmaceutical form of the B vitamin niacin but not the drug ezetimibe to a cholesterol-lowering statin drug appears to reduce artery plaque buildup in patients with coronary artery disease, according to much-anticipated results announced at a press conference...
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- Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Is a Critical Regulator of Cardiac Hypertrophy... (hyper.ahajournals.org)
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For individuals aged 65 to 80 years, systolic blood pressure is independently associated with the presence of brain microinfarctions, according to a report in the November Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Reuters Health Information
From medscape.com
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- Systolic blood pressure linked to brain microinfarctions (rehabpub.com)
- Automatic noninvasive measurement of systolic blood pressure using... (biomedcentral.com)
If the stresses of college have put you at risk for high blood pressure, try transcendental meditation. Source: Reuters Health
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Rationale: Nitric oxide is an important regulator of vascular tone in the pulmonary circulation. Surgical correction of congenital heart disease limits pulmonary hypertension to a brief period.Objectives: The study has measured expression of endothelial (eNOS), inducible (iNOS), and neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in the lungs from biopsies of infants with pulmonary hypertension secondary to cardiac abnormalities (n=26), compared to a...
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- Endothelial cells and pulmonary arterial hypertension : apoptosis... (biomedcentral.com)
- UC San Diego Researchers Reverse Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Mouse... (media-newswire.com)
Background The use of thiazide diuretics has decreased over the past 30 years despite data from many well-controlled clinical trials demonstrating that the use of these agents as monotherapy or in combination with other antihypertensive agents will reduce blood pressure and decrease cardiovascular as well as cerebrovascular events.
Methods We reviewed clinical and experimental data on thiazide diuretics since their introduction in the late...
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