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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION"”.
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Arterial Stiffness, Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents
… and aerobic fitness. The overall prevalence of hypertension was 9.8% with 4.4% of individuals identified with isolated systolic hypertension. The mechanisms underlying isolated systolic hypertension could not be confirmed through this study. Elevations in alanine aminotransferase were highly …
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Large Artery Stiffness: Genes and Pathways
Aortic stiffness underlies systolic hypertension, promotes heart failure and is associated with in- creased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. It is regarded as a primary driver of left ventricular hypertrophy and aortic aneurysms and is linked to the pathogenesis of cognitive impairment, …
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Blood Pressure, Arterial Stiffness and Cardiovascular Risk Prediction
… initiation of the lower treatment threshold for hypertension from a systolic blood pressure (BP) of 140mmHg to 130mmHg in line with the US guidelines as recommended by the AHA/ACC. This would dramatically increase the number of adults requiring drug therapy. Aortic stiffness is an attractive …
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Exercise testing in healthy haemodialysis patients
… During exercise there was a striking rise in the systolic blood pressure in about half the patients from currently acceptable resting levels. This occurred in the absence of any clinical circulatory overload. Mild hyperventilation and disproportionate lactic acidosis was seen towards peak …
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Effect of metformin treatment on isolated cardiac function and blood pressure in diabetic and hypertensive rats
… hyperinsulinemic status of two rodent models of hypertension, the spontaneously hypertensive rat and the fructose-induced hypertensive rat. In the first set of experiments, the effects of oral metformin administration were studied in isolated perfused working hearts from control and diabetic …
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ΔΙΕΡΕΥΝΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΤΗΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΠΙΕΣΗΣ ΣΕ ΑΝΤΙΠΡΟΣΩΠΕΥΤΙΚΟ ΠΛΗΘΥΣΜΙΑΚΟ ΔΕΙΓΜΑ ΕΝΗΛΙΚΩΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ
… WITH THE AGE. IN THE YOUNG AGE IT WAS LOWER, SYSTOLIC AND DIASTOLIC AND HIGHER IN THE OLD AMONG WOMEN COMPARED TO MEN. 3. THE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION CURVE WAS A BELL-LIKE SHAPE. 4. THE PREVALENCE RATE OF HYPERTENSION (BP> 140/90 MM HG) WAS 28,32% WITH AN EQUAL DISTRIBUTION IN BOTH SEXES. THE …