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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"High Blood Pressure"”.
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The potential for diagnosing high blood pressure at the dentist: an examination of periodontal disease and the oral microbiome in raised blood pressure.
… disease, the oral microbiome, and raised blood pressure, while establishing a cardiovascular risk case-finding clinic with a GP referral pathway.<br/>Methods: The project comprised three studies: Study I established and identified cardiovascular risk case-finding in a dental environment …
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Preadjunct questions as a learning strategy for older adults
… control group. They viewed a video on high blood pressure and completed a recall posttest immediately after viewing the video and again seven days tater. Results demonstrated that there was no significant difference between groups. However, the no-question control group obtained a …
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ΑΥΤΟΜΑΤΟΣ ΔΙΑΤΗΡΗΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΤΗΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΠΙΕΣΕΩΣ ΔΙ' ΕΛΕΓΧΟΜΕΝΗΣ ΑΡΤΗΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΑΦΑΙΜΑΞΕΩΣ ΕΝΤΟΣ ΚΛΕΙΣΤΟΥ ΑΣΚΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΛΗΣ ΕΝΔΟΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΟΣ
IN THIS WORK THE CONTROL OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IS ATTEMPTED AROUND A PRESENT (TARGET) VALVE BY CONNECTING THE ARTERIA SYSTEM WITH A COMPLEX HIGH COPLIANCE BALLOON. THIS BALLOON COMPRISED OF 12 SIMPLE ONES WAS USED IN 5 ANESTHETIZED DOGS FOR IN VIVO EXPERIMENTS. THE PEAK PRESSURE OF THIS BALLOON …
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The effects of supervisor intervention on hypertensive employees' blood pressure in an industrial hypertension program
… this study was to lower hypertensive employees' blood pressure by having plant supervisors educate the employee in an eight-week hypertension program on his or her high blood pressure. This was done in an effort to aid employees in the management of their blood pressure, as well as to provide a …
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Effectiveness of Education on Diabetes Control
… type of diabetes, sex, race, age, weight, high blood pressure, use of medication (insulin, high blood pressure and glucose pills), diabetes mellitus diet, and whether the patient was hospitalized. The variables glucose, HbAlc, blood pressure, weight recorded in the medical records were …
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Relation between Heavy Metal on Smoking and Blood Pressure and Lipid Metabolism
… of smokers and non-smokers and its influence to blood pressure and lipid metabolism. METHODS: We examined mineral concentration of hair in 236 healthy people who had visited health promotion center in a university hospital from January 2004 to January 2007. Self-reported cigarette smoking status …
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Assessing the Perceptions of Black American Women Within Virginia's Faith Community Regarding Their Health and Nutrition Practices and Concerns
… Society reported that Black Americans are at higher risk of dying from the nations leading causes of death, such as cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular disease, cancer, accidents, and diabetes. Whereas the five leading causes of death among Black American women include cardiovascular …
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Effect of Intervention Program for Patients with Hypertension Registered in Home Health Care
… up care and received informative sessions for high blood pressure management with the same material that was also given to Experiment Group. Statistical analyses were performed by SPSS 15.0 Program to see frequency and percentage for general characteristics of the subjects. Chi-square was …
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A MUSCADINE GRAPE EXTRACT PREVENTS HYPERTENSION-INDUCED CARDIAC AND VASCULAR DAMAGE IN ASSOCIATION WITH ANTI-FIBROTIC AND ANTIOXIDANT MECHANISMS
… myocardial infarction, and heart failure. If high blood pressure is untreated, damage to the myocardium and vasculature occurs, resulting in pathological fibrosis, hypertrophy, and inflammation. Polyphenols have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and are beneficial against …
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Hypertension, blood pressure, cognition and cerebral blood flow in the cohort of "Men born 1914"
… of carotid arteries, 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, regional cerebral blood flow, and cardiovascular risk factors. It is well known that hypertension plays a major etiological role in the development of cerebrovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, and cardiac failure. …
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Identification of a transducin (beta)-like 3 protein as a potential biomarker of prediabetes from rat urine using proteomics
… children. It is mainly caused by intake of diets high in fat and the lack of physical activity. Obesity is a risk factor for diseases such as type 11 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and certain cancers. Prediabetes is a condition where blood glucose levels are above normal but have …
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Invention and implementation of technologies for continuous flow synthesis
… of nicardipine which is prescribed to treat high blood pressure. The nature of the project required that the final product be relatively pure (>90 %) so that the final product could be crystallized from the reaction mixture. Nicardipine was synthesized in three steps, but in two flow reactors …
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Changes in the characteristics of approved New Drug Applications for antihypertensives
… on the Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure, (JNC), a committee assembled by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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Adolescent Hypertension at a School-Based Health Center: A Pre-Implementation Study Using the Tailored Implementation for Chronic Diseases (TICD) Checklist
… generally healthy but may go undiagnosed with high blood pressure, which can lead to increased risk for developing cardiovascular conditions in adulthood. The updated guidelines released by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2017 reclassify adolescents to tighter blood pressure categories. …
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Uncovering the Critical Amino Acids in the Beta Bubunit of the Epithelial Sodium Channel (ENaC)
A high intake of sodium into the body can lead to high blood pressure that could result to stroke, kidney and heart disease. Sodium balance in the body is partially regulated in the distal tubules of the nephron in the kidney via a membrane channel called the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC). The …
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Identifying risk factors for metabolic syndrome in Division I FCS football players
… a collection of symptoms or markers leading to a higher risk for health problems including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These markers include high blood pressure (BP), increased waist circumference (WC), high triglycerides, low HDL-C and increase glucose. Football players may be more at …
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Dare to be aware: Examining stroke risk perception in African American women aged 35-54 in rural Arkansas
… factor prevalence. African American women are at higher risk for stroke at a younger age compared to white women, with women in the 35-54 age group having a three-fold increase in stroke risk. Stroke susceptibility is compounded in rural African American women due to higher stroke risk factor …
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Sodium reduction challenges and facilitators in breads and processed poultry products: an industry perspective
… consumption of sodium has been shown to cause high blood pressure (Garriguet, 2007). The breads and processed meat categories were identified as the highest contributors to sodium consumption within the Canadian population. The goal of this research is to identify the challenges associated with …
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