This final recommendation statement applies to children and adolescents (teens) from birth to age 18 who do not have signs or symptoms of high blood pressure or of an underlying health problem that could cause high blood pressure. The Task Force reviewed recent research studies on screening for high blood pressure in children and teens. The final recommendation statement summarizes what the Tas...

objective(s): to investigate the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors gamma (pparg) with essential hypertension (eh) and additional role of gene– high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (hdl) interaction. materials and methods:a total of 1640 patients with eh (806 males, 834 females), with a mean age of 52.5±12.6 years, were selec...

purpose to investigate the effects of a 10-week water aerobic exercise on the resting blood pressure in patients with stage 1 or 2 hypertension referring to tehran university clinics. methods forty men with stage 1 or 2 essential hypertension were assigned to two groups of intervention [n = 12; aged 48.33±10.74 years (mean±sd)] and control [n = 28; aged 46.96±11.58 years (mean±sd)]. subjects in...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluates the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) among patients with arterial hypertension, and indirectly, the crucial impact of adopting screening for diabetes as a standard procedure for all patients diagnosed with arterial hypertension. MATERIALS & METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed on a sample of hypertensive patients recruited from three different u...

A comparison has been made of 20 patients with unilateral renal disease, apparently cured of their hypertension by nephrectomy, and of another group of 20 vho showed persistence of elevated blood pressure readings after surgery. Evidence is presented that unilateral renal disease, when it is responsible for hypertension, produces an acute, severe and accelerated process different in many respec...

BACKGROUND Patient weight and family history are significant risk factors for the development of hypertension in children. Multiple genetic factors have been identified in primary (essential) hypertension in adults; however, the delineation of genetic factors in the separate populations of children with primary or secondary hypertension are not well understood. Heritability is the proportion of...

aim and background: tobacco dependency is recognized as the first factor for the prevention of mortality worldwide. despite the negative impact of smoking on hypertension, therapists have been paid less attention to the effectiveness of psychological treatment of nicotine dependence of these patients. methods and materials: in this case- control pre-post test research with a quasi-experimental ...