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A cross-sectional study of vascular risk factors in a rural South African population : data from the Southern African Stroke Prevention Initiative (SASPI) [PDF]

, 2007
Background: Rural sub-Saharan Africa is at an early stage of economic and health transition. It is predicted that the 21st century will see a serious added economic burden from non-communicable disease including vascular disease in low-income countries
A Lee, ABM Swai, C Bunker, CA. Monteiro, CJL Murray, DM Reed, F Cappuccio, FGR Fowkes, FP Cappuccio, Gerry Fowkes, Gillian Lewando Hundt, GMB Berger, HS Kruger, JA Schellenberg, JC Mbanya, Jennifer Marsh, JS Kaufman, K Kahn, K Kahn, K Kahn, K Kahn, K Kahn, K Steyn, M Thorogood, Margaret Thorogood, MD Connor, ME Edginton, Medical Research Council, Myles Connor, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, R Cooper, R Edwards, R Walker, RF Gillum, RW Walker, S Kerry, S Leeder, S Yusuf, SASPI Team, SASPI Team, SASPI Team, SM Tollman, Stephen Tollman, T Puoane, TA Pearson, W Oosthuizen, WF Mollentze, World Health Organisation, World Health Organisation   +48 more
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Hypertension treatment intensification among stroke survivors with uncontrolled blood pressure [PDF]

, 2015
Objective The study objective was to evaluate a pharmacist hypertension care management program within the patient-centered medical home. Methods This was a retrospective case-control study. Cases included all patients with hypertension who were
Bravata, Dawn M., Cheng, Eric M., Jaynes, Heather A., Myers, Laura J., Roumie, Christianne L., Yoder, Joseph, Zillich, Alan J.   +6 more
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MODERN VIEWS ON THE VARIABILITY OF BLOOD PRESSURE

Рациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологии, 2015
Nowadays conception of blood pressure (BP) variability (BPV) includes a number of indicators related to various physiological factors. All the indexes are calculated with the standard deviation (SD) or more complex formulas, including SD.
V. M. Gorbunov
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Clinical characteristics and management of hemodialysis patients with pre-dialysis hypertension: a multicenter observational study

Renal Failure, 2022
Background Hypertension is a leading preventable risk factor for cardiovascular disease in hemodialysis patients. Pre-dialysis systolic blood pressure (SBP) more than 160 mmHg was thought to be associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events and ...
Yaoxian Liang, Liangying Gan, Yulan Shen, Weihua Li, Dongliang Zhang, Zhongxin Li, Jianwei Ren, Mingcheng Xu, Xiaolin Zhao, Yingchun Ma, Li Zuo, Mei Wang   +11 more
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Home blood-pressure monitoring in a hypertensive pregnant population. [PDF]

, 2018
OBJECTIVE: The majority of patients with chronic or gestational hypertension do not develop pre-eclampsia. Home blood-pressure monitoring (HBPM) has the potential to offer a more accurate and acceptable means of monitoring hypertensive patients during ...
ACOG Committee on Practice Bulletins - Obstetrics, Ananth, Barton, Barton, Bellomo, Brown, Brown, Chung, Davis, Duley, Lanssens, Lo, Lowe, Nathan, on behalf of MBRRACEUK, Parati, Peek, Pickering, Rayburn, Reinders, Ross-McGill, Saudan, Tremonti   +22 more
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Feasibility of a randomized hypertension screening initiative in the perioperative setting

Perioperative Medicine, 2021
Objectives This study sought to assess feasibility of a randomized trial of blood pressure intervention (home blood pressure monitoring vs. counseling) in the preoperative clinic and the baseline rates of primary care follow-up after such interventions ...
Sofia I. Diaz, Luying Yan, Feng Dai, Bin Zhou, Matthew M. Burg, Robert B. Schonberger   +5 more
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Thinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home blood pressure monitoring [PDF]

, 2018
The growing consumer market in health monitoring devices means that technologies that were once the preserve of the clinic are moving into spaces such as homes and workplaces.
Britten, Buse, Buse, Cheraghi-Sohi, Danholt, Fox, Greenhalgh, Hammersley, Harper, Hodgetts, Jones, Langstrup, Lupton, Martin, Milligan, Mintel, National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Oudshoorn, Prout, Sharon, Shove, Silverstone, Star, Star, Star, Timmermans, Twigg, Tyson, Vasileiou, Weiner, Willems, Wyatt   +31 more
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Serum uric acid levels in older adults: Associations with clinical outcomes and implications for reference intervals in those aged 70 years and over

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives Reports have linked both high and low serum uric acid (SUA) levels to adverse health outcomes. This study aimed to establish a reference interval for SUA in older adults and assessed its association with clinically relevant outcomes in relatively healthy, community‐dwelling individuals aged 70 and older.
Amanda J Rickard, Cammie Tran, Hans G Schneider, Flavia M Cicuttini, Anita E Wluka, Ego Seeman, Johannes T Neumann, Md Nazmul Karim, Zhen Zhou, Sultana Monira Hussain, David P Q Clark, Daniel Clayton‐Chubb, Andrew M Tonkin, Lawrence J Beilin, Robyn L Woods, John J McNeil   +15 more
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Should guidance for the use of antihypertensive medication in older people with frailty be different? [PDF]

, 2015
The benefits of antihypertensive treatments have been established in numerous large clinical trials. Although the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET) confirmed the protective effect of blood pressure medication for healthy, older individuals ...
van der Wardt, Veronika
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Magnetoactive Metamaterials: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Magnetoactive metamaterials combine magnetoactive composites with architected metastructures to enable contactless, tunable control of mechanical, acoustic, and elastic properties. This review highlights recent advances in their design, fabrication, and applications in soft robotics, biomedical devices, and adaptive structures and outlines future ...
Seyyedmohammad Aghamiri, Ramin Sedaghati
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