Cerebral Aβ40 and systemic hypertension

[Systemic hypertension and anesthesia.].

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Due to the high incidence of systemic hypertension and the lack of consensus on pressure levels to be accepted before inducing anesthesia for elective procedures, literature associated to hypertension and anesthesia was reviewed. Considering that canceling a surgery implies expenses making Medicine increasingly more expensive and that, on the other hand, anesthesia sho...

Systemic and renovascular hypertension.

To ascertain the contribution of systemic hypertension in the progression of renal failure, we have studied the effects of pharmacological treatment of hypertension in rats with the remnant kidney model of renal insufficiency, streptozotocin diabetes, or nephrotoxic serum nephritis. Treatment with the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor enalapril lowered systemic blood pressure in the...

Hypertension and cerebral atherosclerosis.

This study consisted of an analysis of autopsy material from 3,824 persons who were 30 years of age or older in whom the arterial circle of Willis was scored for the severity and extent of atherosclerosis. Several criteria were used for hypertension. These consisted of the heart weight, the clinical diagnosis of hypertension, and the blood pressure. Regardless of which criterion was used, a def...

Hypertension and cerebral infarction.

annual incidence of leprosy in this population of child contacts, in the absence of vaccination, was 4.62 per 1,000 children per year. At the time when this estimate was made a total of 4,263 children (all in Grade 0, I, or 'I initially) had been admitted to the unvaccinated group. According to the estimate 98 cases of leprosy would be expected to develop among them during a period of follow-up...

Systemic Hypertension and the Eyes