Understanding genetic factors that contribute to population-wide variation in blood pressure is likely to benefit prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. The aim of the Victorian Family Heart Study is to identify genes for cardiovascular risk in 783 volunteer adult families recruited from the general population. In this preliminary study we sought to identify quantitative trait loci...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between mortality and treated systolic and diastolic blood pressures. DESIGN Randomised double blind placebo controlled trial. Mortality in the two treatment groups was examined in thirds of treated systolic and diastolic blood pressures. PATIENTS 339 And 352 patients allocated to placebo and active treatment, respectively. The groups were similar at ra...

Because of rising interest in new methods to detect arterial diseases, we compared data from 3 different compliance-related techniques to measure arterial stiffness: systolic pulse contour analysis, diastolic pulse contour analysis (modified Windkessel model), and muscular (brachial) artery compliance by cuff plethysmography. Variables measured in the sitting position were compared with each ot...

To obtain blood pressure distribution for Iranian children, we assessed 10,288 students aged 6-13 years (4871 boys and 5417 girls) in Tehran. Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure showed incremental increases with age, weight and height in both sexes. Mean increases in systolic blood pressure for boys and girls were 1.7 and 0.8 mmHg per year respectively and for diastolic blood pressure we...

the relative importance of systolic (sbp) versus diastolic blood pressure (dbp) and other combinations of sbp and dbp in the prediction of stroke have been re-examined in a long term cohort study of 10,541 men and women aged 45-64 in west scotland. during a mean follow-up of 11.6 years 1, 616 deaths occurred, among which 160 (9.9% 80 male, 80 female) were due to stroke. in a multiple logistic r...

OBJECTIVE To verify the acute effects of resistance exercise on post-exercise blood pressure in patients with intermittent claudication. METHODS Eight patients randomly underwent two experimental sessions: a session of resistance exercise (R: 6 exercises, 3 sets of 12, 10 and 8 reps with a perceived exertion of 11 to 13 on the 15-grade Borg scale) and a control session (C: resting on exercise...

conclusions our study obtained some evidences on the association of micro albuminuria with diastolic dysfunction in obese normotensive no diabetic individuals. nonetheless, more assessment is necessary for obtaining a causal relationship between micro albuminuria and diastolic dysfunction. background recently, an association between impaired diastolic function and increased urinary albumin excr...

The relative importance of systolic (SBP) versus diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and other combinations of SBP and DBP in the prediction of stroke have been re-examined in a long term cohort study of 10,541 men and women aged 45-64 in West Scotland. During a mean follow-up of 11.6 years 1, 616 deaths occurred, among which 160 (9.9% 80 male, 80 female) were due to stroke. In a multiple logi...

a 40-year-old male patient with suicidal ingestion of one tablet of aluminium phosphide was referred to the department of toxicology emergency of baharloo hospital, tehran, iran. the garlic odor was smelled from the patient and abdominal pain and continuous vomiting as well as agitation and heartburn were the first signs and symptoms. systolic and diastolic blood pressures at the arrival time w...