Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are at a high risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. Airflow limitation is a predictor of future risks of hypertension and cardiovascular events. COPD is now understood as a systemic inflammatory disease, with the focus on inflammation of the lungs. An association between inflammation and sympathetic overactivity has also been reported....

Primary systemic hypertension affects 10%-25% of individuals presenting for surgery and anaesthesia and constitutes an important cause of cancellation of elective surgeries. Much of the fear stems from the fact that hypertension may lead to adverse perioperative outcomes. Although long-standing hypertension increases the risk of stroke, renal dysfunction or major adverse cardiovascular events, ...

INTRODUCTION Chronic diseases can act as an accelerating factor in the auditory system degeneration. Studies on the association between presbycusis and diabetes mellitus and systemic arterial hypertension have shown controversial conclusions. OBJECTIVE To compare the initial audiometry (A1) with a subsequent audiometry (A2) performed after a 3 to 4-year interval in a population of elderly pat...

preeclampsia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality during pregnancy. several independent investigators have demonstrated the association of androgens with hypertension. the main purpose of this study was to determine whether maternal levels of sex hormones, especially testosterone, are higher in patients with preeclampsia than in matched normotensive control subjects. serum levels of test...

IN 1998, the World Health Organization sponsored a symposium on pulmonary hypertension at which a new, more clinically useful classification system was adopted.§ Traditionally, pulmonary hypertension had been classified as being primary or secondary. The classification proposed at the World Health Organization symposium divides pulmonary hypertension into five distinct categories (table 1): (1)...

Kawasaki disease may be a systemic inflammatory with predominantly intrinsic immune disorder due to exposure of genetically susceptible individuals various infections and/or environmental triggers. The is prevalent in patients autoimmune diseases or childhood, men dyslipidemia, hypertension, who are chronic smokers, and can triggered by abnormalities emotional agitation. Clinicians need have be...

Two patients with von Recklinghausen disease (neurofibromatosis type 1) were admitted to the hospital because of progressive heart failure. Both patients had prominent pulmonary hypertension revealed on cardiac catheterization. A lung perfusion scan did not show any gross defect. There were no underlying causes of pulmonary hypertension in either patient, such as chronic lung disease, congenita...

Abstract Background Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is characterized by chronic obstruction of major arteries with organized thrombi and classified as pre-capillary (PH) the current hemodynamic definition guidelines. However, clinical risk factors for PH due to left heart disease including features metabolic syndrome, left-sided valvular stable ischemic can be frequently o...