Diastolic Blood Pressure and Myocardial Damage

Relationship of Total Homocysteine, Cholesterol, Triglyceride in the Serum and Diastolic Blood Pressure of Patients with Myocardial Infarction

Recent studies have documented the importance of lipids and lipoproteins as determinants of serum total homocysteine concentrations in persons with myocardial infarction, and in healthy subjects. Associations between various biological systems and total homocysteine have also been reported. However, some of these associations are poorly understood. The purpose of our study was to measure serum ...

DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, and MORTALITY

Coronary flow reserve and the J curve relation between diastolic blood pressure and myocardial infarction.

The results of several large studies of hypertension and follow up studies on insured people have indicated that the lower the blood pressure the better for longevity. These studies excluded subjects with overt ischaemia. More recently long term studies of hypertension that included patients with more severe forms of hypertension and did not exclude those with overt ischaemia have shown a J sha...

Myocardial perfusion and the J curve association between diastolic blood pressure and mortality.

BACKGROUND The J-curve relationship between brachial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and mortality is believed to be mediated through reduced myocardial perfusion. This study aimed to determine the relationship between DBP and subendocardial perfusion in patients with and without coronary artery disease (CAD) and to examine central hemodynamic variables that may explain the risk associated with ...

Postural changes in diastolic blood pressure and the risk of myocardial infarction: the Normative Aging Study.

To assess the relationship of postural changes in blood pressure to risk of myocardial infarction, 1359 men were followed for an average of 8.7 years. The men were participants in the Normative Aging Study, a longitudinal study of aging initiated in 1963 at the Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic in Boston. It was found that the relationship of sitting blood pressure to the subsequent inc...