A random sample of 102 hypertensives out of a total of 347 in the Malaysian Armed Forces were studied with regard to patient education, knowledge of hypertensz'on and therapy compliance. It was found that for 53 percent, patient education was unsatisfactory and as a result 67 percent had inadequate knowledge of hypertensz·on. Adherance to therapy drug intake, wezght reduction and cessation of s...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction Central arterial blood pressure and wave reflection characteristics are independent predictors cardiovascular morbidity mortality. Pulse analysis (PWA) can non-invasively assess these central hemodynamic indices, by deriving aortic waveform from brachial waveform, allowing evaluation systolic (CSP), Pressure (PP), aug...

Nurol Arik, Hacettepe Hastanesi Nefroloji Bölümü, TR-06100 Hacettepe-Ankara (Turkey) Dear Sir, There has been some controversy regarding the nature and importance of the effect of cadmium on hypertension in both humans and experimental animals [1-3]. Besides, the association between elevated blood cadmium and smoking habits is widely accepted [4]. In order to determine the relationship of cadmi...

BACKGROUND The use of antihypertensive medication and hypertension control has significantly increased during recent decades in some developed countries, but the impact of improved drug treatment on blood pressure (BP) control in the population is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS Data were taken from 2 surveys representative of the population aged ≥ 60 years in Spain conducted with the same metho...

BACKGROUND Abnormalities in baroreflex control of heart rate may be important in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension. METHODS AND RESULTS To investigate the influence of heredity on baroreflex function, we measured baroreflex sensitivity in 40 untreated patients with essential hypertension grouped by the presence (FH+) or absence (FH-) of a family history of hypertension and in 24 norm...

Hormonal and mean arterial pressure (MAP) responses to posture, isometric handgrip, angiotensin II (AII), adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), and metoclopramide (MCP), a dopamine (DA) antagonist, were examined in nine men with essential hypertension and nine age- and weight-matched normotensive men on a constant 100 mEq sodium and 80 mEq potassium intake before and after 4 days of administrati...

Evidence suggests that obesity may raise blood pressure (BP) through oxidative stress-sensitive mechanisms and that the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension combination diet (DASH-CD) may decrease BP by enhancing antioxidant capacity. To address this question, 12 obese patients with high-normal-to-stage 1 hypertension (hypertensives) and 12 lean normotensives were studied on their usual diet...

Two studies were performed to determine the quantitative relationship between salt intake and urinary volume (U(v)) in humans. In study 1, 104 untreated hypertensives were studied on the fifth day of a high- and a low-salt diet. The 24-hour U(v) was 2.2 L (urinary sodium [U(Na)] 277 mmol) on the high-salt diet and decreased to 1.3 L (P<0.001) (U(Na) 20.8 mmol) on the low-salt diet. The reductio...

OBJECTIVE Hypertension and an atherogenic lipid profile are known risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD). Hypertensives show greater changes in atherogenic plasma lipids to acute stress than normotensives. In this study, we investigated whether attribution of failure is associated with lipid stress reactivity in hypertensive compared with normotensive men. METHODS 18 normotensive and 1...