Blood pressure variability and aortic atherosclerosis – Cause or consequence?

Day-by-day blood pressure variability: cause or consequence of vascular brain injury?

D ementia represents an important public health issue in developed countries because of increasing longevity of the elderly population. 1 Cerebral damage is mediated by changes in cerebral vasculature affecting both large and small vessels. 2 The microvascular disease results in chronic ischemic changes affecting the white matter, which in the long run can lead to cognitive alterations, which m...

Is increased arterial stiffness a cause or consequence of atherosclerosis?

Adaptive cellular immunity in aortic aneurysms: cause, consequence, or context?

Abdominal aortic aneurysms are common and life threatening. Although CD4(+) T cells are abundant in aneurysm tissue, their role in disease progression remains unclear. A new study shows that mouse aortic allografts placed in animals lacking IFN-gamma receptors develop a Th2 inflammatory response with aortic aneurysms, whereas Th1 responses promote intimal hyperplasia. It is expected that these ...

Abnormal pressure natriuresis. A cause or a consequence of hypertension?

In all forms of chronic hypertension, the renal-pressure natriuresis mechanism is abnormal because sodium excretion is the same as in normotension despite the increased blood pressure. However, the importance of this resetting of pressure natriuresis as a cause of hypertension is controversial. Theoretically, a resetting of pressure natriuresis could necessitate increased blood pressure to main...

Data Mining: Cause or Consequence

Data mining arose as a merge of several areas such as databases, statistics and artificial intelligence, and has been growing steadily in the last 20 years. Recently, the popularization of the concepts of Data Science and Big Data accelerated the process. In this seminar we try to answer the question whether data mining is cause or consequence of these recent developments through an integrated ...