The diurnal curves of 21 patients (40 eyes) with angle-closure glaucoma and of 21 normotensive subjects (42 eyes) were studied. The patients with angle-closure glaucoma had a V-shaped diurnal curve that was completely different from the diurnal curve of the normotensive subjects. Most of the eyes of the patients with angle-closure glaucoma had a diurnal change of the intraocular pressure of 8 m...

1. Ca2+ -binding ability and membrane structure of red blood cells of patients with essential and renal hypertension were studied. 2. Ca2+ -binding ability of the erythrocyte membrane of patients with essential hypertension was found to be reduced by 30% compared with that of normotensive controls. 3. The rate of lateral diffusion of pyrene in the erythrocyte membrane of patients with essential...

Background Postmenopausal women are more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension and at higher risk of cardiovascular disease compared with age-matched men. Blood pressure variability is emerging as a predictor adverse outcomes may be implicated in the relationship between menopause worsened vascular health women. We conducted an observational study, BRAVE (Blood pRessure And Vascular hEalth a...

Aim: To evaluate the levels of C Reactive protein, an inflammatory marker in preeclamptic and normotensive pregnant women. Methods: It was a cross sectional analytical study. The participants included 60 cases with preeclampsia and 60 normotensive pregnant women, all in their third trimester. All the participants were in the age group of 20-40 years and a BMI of 18-25. HsCRP levels were measure...

This study investigated the prevalence of electrocardiographically determined left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive and normotensive type 2 diabetic females who went for consultation at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Rivers State, Nigeria. Two hundred participants mean age 52 years, attending the medical outpatient clinic over a 6-month period were recruited fo...