INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The presence of renal disease significantly alters the cardiovascular risk of patients with high blood pressure. However, few studies have examined renal parameters in primary care patients. The objectives of this study were to investigate cardiovascular risk and the factors influencing it in hypertensive patients with renal disease and to compare the findings with t...

BACKGROUND Comparative cardiovascular responses to treadmill and bicycle ergometer (bike) exercise tests in hypertensive Nigerians are not known. This study compared cardiovascular responses to the two modes of exercise testing in hypertensives using maximal exercise protocols. METHODS One hundred and ten male subjects with mild-to-moderate hypertension underwent maximal treadmill and bike te...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are elevated in humans with hypertension many of which develop end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and antioxidant capacity is decreased. About one-half of essential hypertensives have a salt-sensitive type of hypertension, and the amount of renal damage that occurs in salt-sensitive hypertensives greatly exceeds that of non-salt-sensitive hypertensives. Antioxidant th...

A less-than-normal decline in nocturnal blood pressure (BP) has been associated with excessive hypertensive complications. This is concerning because secondary hypertension is often associated with this so-called nondipper BP profile. A nondipping pattern is more frequently found in the presence of pheochromocytoma, Cushing's syndrome, and sleep apnea syndrome, but the prevalence is unclear in ...

Background: Non-communicable diseases cause, more than 50% of deaths and cardiovascular emerged as the most important cause it. Hypertension affects about 1 billion people worldwide it is estimated that by 2025, up to 1.58 adults while comorbidity depression, anxiety, an public health concern representing 31% all deaths. Objectives were study prevalence depression among adult hypertensive subje...

Hyperreactivity to stress may be one explanation for the increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in individuals with essential hypertension. We investigated blood lipid reactivity Montreal Imaging Stress Task (MIST), a psychosocial stressor, hypertensive and normotensive men tested prospective associations biological factors. Fifty-six otherwise healthy medication-free underwent MIST. re...

Objective: The general Objective of this pilot study was to unveil the findings blood pressure screening program at a Non-Government Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh. specific Objectives were find out socio-demographic profile participants, categorize readings according defined variables, select among participants who would require intervention and encourage people order adopt healthy diet ...

This study examines the influence of dopamine on plasma catecholamine, prolactin (PRL), and mean arterial pressure (MAP) responses to upright posture and isometric handgrip exercise and the recumbent circadian PRL and MAP patterns in essential hypertension. Nine men with sustained essential hypertension and nine ageand weight-matched normotensive controls were studied after they had reached met...

BACKGROUND Racial variations are reported in the natural history of hypertension. For example, hypertension is significantly more prevalent in blacks than whites. Endothelial cells are important regulators of vascular tone and homeostasis, in part through secretions of vasoactive substances including endothelin-1 (ET-1), a small peptide with potent vasopressor actions. In black hypertensives, E...