Background & Aim: Hypertension is an incurable disease which has become a common major risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases worldwide. Besides increasing the risk of heart diseases and stroke, hypertension can also lead to other health conditions such as renal disease and diabetes. The prolong use of orthodox antihypertensive are usually associated with many side effect...

PURPOSE To describe initial antihypertensive management relative to important aspects of JNC7 hypertension guidelines, to identify predictors of receiving JNC7 discordant therapy, and to determine the association between receiving JNC7-concordant antihypertensive treatment and achieving blood pressure (BP) control. This study focused on aspects of the JNC7 guidelines which are consistent with o...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the antihypertensive agent(s) more likely to mitigate an exaggerated rise in exercise blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients. BACKGROUND An exaggerated rise in exercise BP is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. There are no recommendations for treating such response. METHODS Participants were hypertensive men (n = 2,318;...

Hypertension is common in deep brain stimulator (DBS) placement predisposing to intracranial hemorrhage. This retrospective review evaluates factors predicting incremental antihypertensive use intraoperatively. Medical records of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients undergoing DBS procedure between 2008-2011 were reviewed after Institutional Review Board approval. Anesthesia medication, preoperati...

prompt decrease in BP. In three subjects, hypotension occurred after BN (BP <120/70 mmHg), and intradialytic ultrafiltration had to be decreased. Five patients required continuation of one antihypertensive drug. While in our centre, antihypertensive therapy was more intense during the last years of the study with 5.8 (5–6) daily antihypertensive agents compared with only 4.4 (4–5) in the years ...