STUDY OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to determine the relations between maternal work, ambulatory blood pressure in mid-pregnancy, and subsequent pregnancy outcome. DESIGN Data were studied on 933 healthy normotensive primigravidas who had been enrolled into a study on the predictive value of ambulatory blood pressure measurement performed between 18 and 24 weeks gestation. They were ...

background: ketamine is the only anesthetic agent that leads to an increase of blood pressure and heart rate by activation of sympathetic nervous system. however, there is a controversy about this effect of ketamine especially if used in small dosage. we proposed to evaluate the hemodynamic effect of small dose of ketamine during phacoemulsification. methods: one hundred patients of asa physica...

introduction: obesity is an independent risk factor in developing cvd, type ii diabetes, and gall bladder disease, different types of cancers, osteoarthritis and mortality. weight gain during adult life, especially during the third and fourth decades, is associated with increased blood pressure. methods: random samples of nearly 1493 men and women aged between 16 to 85 years old were selected f...

OBJECTIVES To determine the value of combined screening for pre-eclampsia by maternal history, and mid-trimester uterine artery (UtA) Doppler imaging and maternal blood pressure. METHODS In 3529 singleton pregnancies attending for routine care at 22-24 weeks' gestation we recorded maternal variables, and made UtA Doppler and mean arterial pressure (MAP) measurements. Multiple regression analy...

objective: to compare the maternal and umbilical cord serum selenium concentrations in low and normal birth weight neonates. materials and methods: a case-control study was carried out in vali-asr and akbarabadi hospitals (jan. to dec. 2013). two groups; case group; 91 mothers who delivered a low birth weight (lbw) neonate and control group; 86 subjects who delivered a normal birth weight neona...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have linked smaller kidney dimensions to increased blood pressure. However, patients with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN), whose kidneys shrink during the course of the disease, do not manifest increased blood pressure. The authors evaluated the relationship between kidney cortex width, kidney length, and blood pressure in the offspring of BEN patients and controls....

BACKGROUND Exposure to preeclampsia or gestational hypertension is associated with higher offspring systolic blood pressure (SBP), but less is known about associations with other cardiometabolic risk markers. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 1097 children from the Project Viva cohort born 1999-2002. Exposures were preeclampsia or gestational hypertension and mean maternal SBP in each trimester ...

background: use of single measurement of risk factors can distort their estimated effects, due to random error in measurements. the aim of this study was to examine the extent of underestimation in the estimated effect of common variables in physical exam i.e. systolic and diastolic blood pressure (sbp, dbp) and body mass index (bmi) on cardiovascular diseases in tehran lipid and glucose study ...

objective: to examine association between maternal socio-cultural status, as indicated by maternal income, education and polygamy with severity of pre–eclampsia. materials and methods: this study was carried out in primary health centers in katsina, adamawa and borno states. a total of two groups of subjects were selected for the study, with 50 subjects in each group. group a - pregnant non hyp...

The observations to be presented here on the average oxygen pressure gradient that exists between the maternal and fetal bloods of the sheep, separated by the five tissue layers that form the syndesmochorial placenta, are in the nature of a supplement to data published earlier.' In that paper data were presented on the form of the oxygen dissociation curves of fetal and maternal bloods obtained...