Blood Pressure Reduction for Vascular Risk

Blood Pressure Reduction for Vascular Risk

The importance of lowering blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive subjects is well-known and recent studies suggest that lowering of BP in patients who may already be in the normotensive range further reduces the risk of vascular events, particularly stroke. Epidemiological data have also shown that lower BP and antihypertensive treatment may be associated with cognitive impairment once cerebrovas...

Blood Pressure and Risk of Vascular Dementia

V ascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia 1 and is increasing in prevalence in developing countries. 2 Vascular dementia usually occurs in association with vascular risk factors or after transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke 3 and commonly manifests with a decline in cognitive function, apathy, and depression, and can eventually result in death. 1,4 Blood pressure (BP),...

Blood pressure control and cardiovascular risk reduction.

The ultimate goal of antihypertensive therapy is cardiovascular risk reduction. As lowering blood pressure per se reduces risk for myocardial infarction only by 20%-25%, it is obvious that a better protection is needed. An optimal strategy to reduce risk in hypertensives may include lifestyle modification, promotion of adherence to therapy, early and aggressive target levels achievement by appr...

Elevated blood pressure & effectiveness of comprehensive risk reduction programme

Blood Vessels Blood Pressure and Vascular Calcification

The aim of this study was to determine the associations between the presence and extent of calcified atherosclerosis in multiple vascular beds and systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure, isolated systolic hypertension, and hypertension. A total of 9510 patients (42.5% women) underwent electron beam computed tomography scanning as part of a rout...