Fourteen Spinal Cord Injured (SCI) and 15 Ablebodied (AB) individuals participated in two 30 minutes (min) standing sessions. The control groups (SCICONT, ABCONT) consisted of both AB and SCI standing still with no muscle contraction. The experimental groups consisted of both SCI subjects (SCIEXP) standing with use of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)-induced muscle activation of four low...

UNLABELLED Background- Few studies have examined the possible influence of gene polymorphisms on the increase of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and pulse pressure (PP) with age, although in older populations, SBP>160 mm Hg or PP>60 mm Hg are strong mechanical factors predicting cardiovascular mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS This cross-sectional study involved 315 men and 154 women with either s...

The levels of blood pressures measured by a Physiometrics Infrasonde recorder (model SR-2) were compared with the levels simultaneously measured byt auscultation utilizing a standard mercury sphygmomanometer (Baumanometer). The measurements were made on 1530 adult women and their 1760 adolescent children 15-17 years old. Two sets of blood pressures were taken about 3 minutes apart, each with an...

BACKGROUND Garlic has been suggested to lower blood pressure; however, studies evaluating this parameter have provided conflicting results. OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of garlic on blood pressure in patients with and without elevated systolic blood pressure (SPB) through meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. METHODS A systematic search of MEDLINE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Centr...

To determine the accuracy of the Microlife WatchBP O3 blood pressure measuring device tested according to the requirements of the International Protocol of the European Society of Hypertension. The WatchBP O3 is designed to provide clinic, ambulatory, and self blood pressure (BP) measurements. Device evaluation was performed in 33 participants with a mean +/- standard deviation age of 56.1+/-20...

1.Compare the efficacy and tolerability of telmisartan versus enalapril in patients of stage-1 essential hypertension, according to JNC 7 classification. 2.Compare safety with each drug in study group. Materials and Methods: The present study protocol was approved by IEC. The randomized study of 12 weeks from January to March 2013 conducted on 60 newly diagnosed stage 1 hypertensive patients in...

Objective: Hypertension is a common component of metabolic syndrome (MetS). Some studies showed that L-arginine reduced the blood pressure (BP) .Therefore this study was designed to evaluate the effect of L-arginine supplementation on BP in MetS. Materials and Methods: In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, 60 patients with MetS were randomly divided into two groups: the ...

A multiple regression analysis was performed on statistically independent factors derived from blood pressure measurements and possible predictive variables in 618 Utah adults. Nine blood pressure factors obtained in a previous study composed the dependent variables; 35 anthropometric, questionnaire, and biochemical variables were reduced by factor analysis to 10 factors and used as independent...

Non-invasive measurement of the human blood pressure remains, although the commercial availability of such monitors, an active research topic. This is due to the disadvantage that the blood pressure is computed instead of directly measured. To compute the systolic and diastolic blood pressures from the oscillometry, the envelope of the oscillometric waveform is used to retrieve the systolic and...

OBJECTIVE To see whether cardiac morphological and functional abnormalities in uraemic patients are determined by high blood pressure or if they are an expression of a specific cardiomyopathy. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING City general hospital in Italy. SUBJECTS 35 uraemic patients receiving haemodialysis (17 men, 18 women; mean age 60.3 (11.2); mean duration of dialysis 52 month...