BACKGROUND The diagnosis of hypertension in children is difficult because of the multiple sex-, age-, and height-specific thresholds to define elevated blood pressure (BP). Blood pressure-to-height ratio (BPHR) has been proposed to facilitate the identification of elevated BP in children. OBJECTIVE We assessed the performance of BPHR at a single screening visit to identify children with hyper...

Background: Diastolic dysfunction may be the earliest marker which leads to progressive cardiac failure. Thus importance of detecting diastolic using tissue doppler echocardiography helps in preventing progression patients symptomatic congestive failure Objectives: 1. To find prevalence post myocardial infarction 2. study association between left ventricular and variables such as smoking, Diabe...

Previously we demonstrated that pulse pressure is a strong risk factor for coronary events in male hypertensive subjects in the MRC Mild Hypertension Trial, whereas stroke is best predicted by mean blood pressure. In this study, we have assessed the implications of this finding in the treatment of mild essential hypertension. We examined the relationship between diastolic blood pressure and bot...

The article presents the main aspects of pathogenesis comorbidity non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and hypertension. These diseases are very often presented as comorbidities in a large number patients can independently impair renal function. According to literature results our own research, role insulin resistance, disorders lipid carbohydrate metabolism, cytokine imbalance, antioxidant defens...

Hypertension is blood pressure that exceeds normal limits where systolic pressure> 140 mmHg and diastolic > 90 mmHg. To overcome this, it necessary to make non-pharmacological therapy, namely the application of Slow, Deep Breathing Exercises. This study aims apply Slow Exercise decrease in patients with hypertension ineffective brain tissue perfusion. The method used this research a case ...

A prediction model, developed in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), has been proposed for use in estimating a given individual’s risk of hypertension. We compared this model with systolic blood pressure (SBP) alone and age-specific diastolic blood pressure categories for the prediction of hypertension. Participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, without hypertension or diabetes me...

The objective of this study was to evaluate diastolic parameters and left ventricular geometry in gestational hypertension. Twenty-one consecutive pregnant women with gestational hypertension and 21 normotensive women matched for age and gestational age were enrolled in the third trimester of gestation. Echocardiographic and uterine color Doppler evaluations were performed. Systolic, diastolic,...

Aging is often associated with increased systolic blood pressure and decreased diastolic blood pressure. Isolated systolic hypertension or an elevated systolic blood pressure without an elevated diastolic blood pressure is a known risk factor for incident heart failure in older adults. In the current study, we examined whether isolated diastolic hypotension, defined as a diastolic blood pressur...

PURPOSE Patients with diastolic dysfunction may have a disproportionate degree of elevation in pulmonary pressure, particularly in the elderly. Higher pulmonary vascular resistance in the elderly patients with heart failure but preserved ejection fraction suggests that beyond the post-capillary contribution of pulmonary venous congestion, a pre-capillary component of pulmonary arterial hyperten...

Diastolic hypertension has been widely and justifiably accepted as a cause of cardiovascular mortality. However, it has also been accepted that the cardiovascular sequelae of hypertension derive chiefly from the diastolic component. Because systolic and diastolic pressure are usually highly correlated it is not easy to dissociate the effects of each. Statistical analysis suggests that systolic ...