BACKGROUND As the case detection rate of arterial hypertension increases daily in rural Nigeria, screening for its associated abdominal obesity and dyslipidemia is an important healthcare challenge. Of great concern in rural Nigeria is that most geriatric hypertensives with abdominal obesity and dyslipidemia are not routinely diagnosed and therefore do not receive appropriate management. OBJE...

Accessory spleens are frequent entities, but their infarction due to arterial stasis caused by segmental portal hypertension is extremely rare. We present this case of a 38-year-old female patient with a three-week history of abdominal pain and an abdominal CT scan revealing a 7 cm mass near the spleen and tail of pancreas with segmental portal hypertension. The patient had no hematologic disea...

Hypertension in children is not as frequent as adults. In addition, most of the times, we encounter secondary hypertension rather than essential hypertension in children. This demands careful history taking, physical examination, and laboratory and imaging investigations to find the underlying cause. Here, a boy with tuberous sclerosis is reported who presented with hypertension and abdominal p...

Abstract Background To investigate the regional prevalence of hypertension, overweight, and obesity among adolescents aged 11–17 years in Xuzhou. The relationships between obesity, abdominal age, gender, grades, hypertension were studied. Methods stratified cluster random sampling method was used middle school students from first to third grade 10 junior senior schools Xuzhou involved. Blood pr...

An arterial aneurysm is defined as a focal dilation of a blood vessel with respect to the original artery. The risk of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) increases dramatically in the presence of the following factors: age older than 60 years, smoking, hypertension and Caucasian ethnicity. The likelihood that an aneurysm will rupture is influenced by the aneurysm size, expansion rate, continued ...

UNLABELLED The aim of this prospective study is to examine the frequency and the severity of intra-abdominal hypertension in a mixed ICU of the University hospital. METHODS A closed system for intravesical intermittent measurement of IAP was constructed. RESULTS The frequency and the severity of IAH were examined in the period from June 2009 to December 2012 in 240 ICU patients divided into...

Intra-abdominal accumulation of fat is a hallmark of male body-fat distribution and a major risk factor for hypertension. Sympathoactivation may be one of the mechanisms linking intra-abdominal obesity to hypertension. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether a functional variation in the androgen-receptor gene (AR, a variable number of CAG repeats in exon 1) is associated with i...

A 42-year-old man with diabetes and hypertension presented to the emergency room after experiencing a several month history of gradually increasing abdominal girth with the sudden onset of abdominal pain.