Hypertension - Diagnosis
I Brazilian position paper on prehypertension, white coat hypertension and masked hypertension: diagnosis and management
... Repeated BP measurement at the office allows the diagnosis of hypertension and normotension. To better assess BP behavior, there are methods that analyze BP by using a higher number of measurements, ...
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Role of echocardiography in diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension
... echocardiographic diagnosis of PH is possible, without symptoms and risk factors for pulmonary arterial hy- pertension, echocardiographic follow-up is recommended (Class I, Level C); however, if there is presence ...
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Nursing diagnosis Noncompliance to treatment in men with hypertension
... nursing diagnosis Noncompliance of treatment in men with high blood pressure, its defining characteristics, and related ...with hypertension by applying a validated instrument for identification of nursing ...
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Hypertension in patients on dialysis: diagnosis, mechanis- ms, and management Hipertensão em pacientes em diálise: diagnóstico, mecanismos e tratamento
... Hypertension (blood pressure > 140/90 mm Hg) is very common in patients un- dergoing regular dialysis, with a preva- lence of 70-80%, and only the minority has adequate blood pressure (BP) con- trol. In ...
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Diagnosis and management of systemic hypertension due to renovascular and aortic stenosis in patients with Williams-Beuren syndrome
... Hypercalciuria was found in four patients, and hypercalcemia was diagnosed in one patient. Esti- mated creatinine clearance and albuminuria at the beginning of the study are shown in Table 3. One pa- tient had ...
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Hipertensão em pacientes em diálise: diagnóstico, mecanismos e tratamento Hypertension in patients on dialysis: diagnosis, mechanisms, and management
... Hypertension (blood pressure > 140/90 mm Hg) is very common in patients un- dergoing regular dialysis, with a preva- lence of 70-80%, and only the minority has adequate blood pressure (BP) con- trol. In ...
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Metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, hypertension and type 2 diabetes in youth: from diagnosis to treatment
... The definition considered most appropriate and which was added to this SBD publication is the one proposed by the IDF. It divided children into age groups. There was not a well defined proposal for children under 6 years ...
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Case for diagnosis
... The patient reported that for previous two years she had noticed a lace-like reddish-violet discoloration of the skin when exposed to cold, particularly on the face, nasal apex, inner surface of the upper limbs, abdo- ...
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Preventive and therapeutic strategies for pulmonary arterial hypertension
... Vascular remodeling is a central process in the pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) pathobiology. This process is associated with structural and functional alterations in the pulmonary artery wall, leading to ...
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Key words Hypertension, Adult health, Epidemi-
... Canadian Hypertension Education Program. The 2014 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, assessment of risk, prevention, and treatment of ...
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Survivin modulation in experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension
... Traditionally, PAH was considered a disease of excess vasoconstriction [3] but the observation that more than 85% of patients are unresponsive to current available vasodilator therapies at the time of diagnosis ...
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Calcium handling by vascular myocytes in hypertension
... Hypertension is considered to be a multi- factorial disease in which genetic and envi- ronmental factors, humoral and neural sys- tems, and also intrinsic changes in the vascu- lature play a role. The disease in ...
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Transudative Chylothorax in a Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension
... Chylothorax, presence of chyle in the pleural space, is an infrequent clinical form of pleural efusion developed due to several pathologies, including pulmonary hy- pertension. Since now, very few clinical cases of ...
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Experimental animal models of induced intraocular hypertension
... Search words used included: intraocular pressure, glaucoma, animal, model, laser photocoagulation, trabecular meshwork, episcleral vein, cauterization, ligation, microsp[r] ...
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Review of the Y chromosome and hypertension
... It might be that the rat liver, like the mouse liver, is androgenized at an early stage and the hepatic angiotensinogen system might play a key role in the cascade of events involving testosterone and its effects on hy- ...
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Sex differences in angiotensin II- induced hypertension
... Physiologically relevant concentrations of E2 have both rapid and long-term positive cardiovascular effects which are mediated by two types of estrogen receptors (ER), ERα and ERß (27). Crucial roles for ERα in the ...
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Essential hypertension and cognitive function in elderly
... damage. Unlike other studies that have not studied prehypertensives categories separately, we studied the cognitive function across various stage of blood pressure as per the JNC VII classification i.e. normotensives, ...
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Prenatally programmed hypertension: role of maternal diabetes
... of hypertension is estimated to be between 5 and 30% depending on the area screened ...of hypertension are designated as essential or primary, with causes that are not deined ...
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DFP: European Society of Hypertension Scientific Newsletter: Update on Hypertension Management 2009; 10: No. 37 - Hypertonie bei Sportlern
... Asymptomatische Personen mit hohem oder sehr hohem zu- sätzlichem Risiko können von einem Leistungstest profitie- ren, bevor sie eine sportliche Betätigung moderater Intensität aufnehmen[r] ...
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Vasopressor mechanisms in acute aortic coarctation hypertension
... the aorta (24,37), plasma epinephrine con- centration of conscious rats submitted to partial aortic constriction did not differ from that observed in their control counterparts. Similar findings were obtained in ...
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