Arterial hypertension prevention as an actual medical and social problem

Arterial hypertension as an uninvited player in hepatic stiffness?

Vlad Ratziu, Dominique Valla, and Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou Service d’hépatogastroentérologie, Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Hospital Pitié Salpêtrière, INSERM UMR S_938, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; INSERM, UMR-970, Paris Cardiovascular Research CenterPARCC, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; and Service d’hépatologie, DHU Unity Hôp...

Promotion, prevention and arterial hypertension care in Brazil.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of promotion, prevention and arterial hypertension care actions in adults and to identify their association with decompensated hypertension. METHODS A population-based cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted by interviewing 12,324 adults aged from 20 to 59 years, in 100 Brazilian cities. The independent variables considered as promotion, preven...

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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: An Update

Introduction On first glance, a review of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in a journal that focuses on the health of the elderly may seem out of place. PAH is typically envisioned as a progressively disabling disease in young females. However, PAH is not a disease restricted to the young. Indeed, 20% of the patients followed in our pulmonary hypertension clinic are over the age of 65. Alt...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension: an update

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), defined as group 1 of the World Heart Organisation (WHO) classification of pulmonary hypertension, is an uncommon disorder of the pulmonary vascular system. It is characterised by an increased pulmonary artery pressure, increased pulmonary vascular resistance and specific histological changes. It is a progressive disease finally resulting in right heart fa...