Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2018 Systemic arterial hypertension is the most important modifiable risk factor for all-cause morbidity and mortality worldwide and is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Fewer than half of those with hypertension are aware of their condition, and many others are aware but not treated or inadequately treated, although ...
Oparil, Suzanne +10 more
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HYPERTENSION: Essential hypertension: the heart and hypertension [PDF]
Heart, 2001 The heart and hypertension are intimately linked. Hypertension predisposes to coronary heart disease, myocardial hypertrophy, and cardiac dysfunction. Other organs and systems are also important in hypertension but this article concentrates on the effect of hypertension on the heart.
K E Berkin, S G Ball
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How common is isolated nocturnal hypertension? [PDF]
, 2020 The growing use of methods to measure blood pressure (BP) under everyday life conditions in ‘out-of-office’ settings, through either 24-h ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) or home BP monitoring (HBPM), for defining BP status has led to identification of ...
Cottone, Santina, Mulè, Giuseppe
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2000 The current JNC-VI criteria for diagnosis and classification of hypertension are discussed. The laboratory evaluation of both essential and secondary hypertension is examined, and recommendations are made in this regard. Finally, the complications and treatment of essential hypertension and the causes and management of resistant hypertension are ...
R J, Zoorob, A M, Arif, V, Morelli
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A population-based study of reduced sleep duration and hypertension : the strongest association may be in premenopausal women [PDF]
, 2009 Objectives: Recent evidence indicates that reduced sleep duration may be associated with an increased risk of hypertension with possibly stronger effects among women than men.
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Towards precision medicine for hypertension: a review of genomic, epigenomic, and microbiomic effects on blood pressure in experimental rat models and humans [PDF]
, 2017 Compelling evidence for the inherited nature of essential hypertension has led to extensive research in rats and humans. Rats have served as the primary model for research on the genetics of hypertension resulting in identification of genomic regions ...
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Report of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) Hypertension Teaching Seminar organized by the ISH Africa Regional Advisory Group: Maputo, Mozambique, 2016 [PDF]
, 2016 The International Society of Hypertension (ISH), in fulfilment of its mission of promoting hypertension control and prevention and also of advancing knowledge globally, organizes hypertension teaching seminars or ‘summer schools’ worldwide through the ...
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Survival with Treated and Well-Controlled Blood Pressure: Findings from a Prospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
, 2011 AIM: To compare survival and incident cardiovascular disease between normotensive, untreated hypertensive, treated and poorly-controlled hypertensive and treated and well-controlled hypertensive adults.
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Diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: clinical insights and vascular mechanisms [PDF]
, 2018 Hypertension and type 2 diabetes are common comorbidities. Hypertension is twice as frequent in patients with diabetes compared with those who do not have diabetes.
Guzik, Tomasz J. +2 more
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Vascular biology of ageing—implications in hypertension [PDF]
, 2015 Ageing is associated with functional, structural and mechanical changes in arteries that closely resemble the vascular alterations in hypertension. Characteristic features of large and small arteries that occur with ageing and during the development of ...
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