objective mercury poisoning is one of the important recent causes of mortality and mortality in children worldwide, particularly in industrial environments; mercury is a poisonous metal, especially harmful to the nervous and immune systems and the kidneys and can even be fatal. elemental mercury is present in thermometers, barometer batteries, sphygmomanometers and latex paints. inorganic mercu...

BACKGROUND Uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) is a significant contributor of morbidity and even mortality in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients. This study was done to determine the significant determinants of uncontrolled blood pressure in T2D patients in Malaysia. METHODS Between 1st January 2009 to 31st December 2009, data from 70 889 patients with Type 2 diabetes was obtained from the Adult Di...

agent technology is an emerging and promising research area in software technology, which increasingly contributes to the development of value-added information systems for large healthcare organizations due to its capability to automatically modify themselves in response to changes in their operating environment. multi agent system (mas) approach is the construction of a complex system as a se...

Interaction between the tricyclic antidepressant desipramine and the antihypertensive agent clonidine has been investigated in five hypertensive patients in a double-blind placebo controlled study. Introduction of the tricyclic antidepressant led to loss of blood pressure control in four of the patients. The average blood pressure rise in the desipramine period compared with the placebo period ...

PRONETHALOL, an effective beta-adrenergic blocking agent, was observed to reduce arterial blood pressure in hypertensive patients being treated for angina pectoris.1 Subsequently Prichard and Gillam2 3 compared propranolol, another beta-adrenergic blocking drug, 120 to 640 mg/day, with previously administered methyldopa in 12 hypertensive patients and reported lower blood pressure during use of...

mild (140 to 159/90 to 99 mmhg) or moderate (160 to 179/100 to 109 mmhg) chronic arterial hypertension does not appear to cause headache. whether moderate hypertension predisposes patients to headache at all remains controversial, but there is little evidence that it does. ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in patients with mild and moderate hypertension has shown no convincing relationship b...