Zinc deficiency during pregnancy has been related to adverse pregnancy outcomes. However, the results of zinc-supplementation trials have not been consistent in improvement of pregnancies outcomes. This study was undertaken to investigate whether zinc supplementation was associated with pregnancy complications in Iranian women during the last 2 trimesters. It also assessed the anthropometric me...

Despite the efforts of many healthcare professionals, voluntary health organizations, and policy makers, many women as well as many healthcare professionals are still unaware that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women. Surveys by the American Heart Association (AHA) indicate that 50% of women realize that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women, ...

background: hypertension is fast emerging as a major health problem amongst all school adolescents, particularly in urban areas. regular screening of the students for this is required for preventing the emergence of complications later in life. therefore,the present study was undertaken with the objective to determine the prevalence of hypertension amongst urban school adolescents and its corre...

the purpose of this investigation was to assess the effect of captopril on both systemic (p.a) and pulmonary arterial pressures (ppa) in patients with high-altitude pulmonary hypertension (haph). seventeen patients (mean age 44±6.8 years) with haph and mild to moderate systemic arterial hypertension were included in the study. all patients underwent right heart catheterization with measurements...

background: hypertension is one of the most important determinants of death due to vascular damage and is fast emerging as a high burden disease in india. however, its documentation is poor in the country. this study aims to estimate the rate and the causal pattern of mortality in a cohort of people with high blood pressure as compared to normotensives. methods: the study setting is varkkala, a...

hypertension is a common complication of kidney transplantation with the prevalence of 80%. studies in adults have shown a high prevalence of hypertension (htn) in the first three months of transplantation while this rate is reduced to 50- 60% at the end of the first year. htn remains as a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, lower graft survival rates and poor function of transplante...

background: the global health burden has faced toward non-communicable diseases (ncds). it is suggested that adulthood blood pressure (bp) is tracked from childhood. this study aims to evaluate the mean bp and the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension in the iranian pediatric population. methods: in a national survey as the 4th phase of childhood and adolescence surveillance and preven...

since the report from the national high blood pressure (bp) education program working group on bp in children and adolescents and the introduction of a new description called prehypertension many data have been provided on its rate of progression to hypertension, its prevalence and association with other cardiovascular (cv) risk factors and its therapy. making a diagnosis of prehypertension in ...

conclusions we observed acceptable results regarding both efficacy and safety with 62.5 mg of bosentan, twice daily in this group of patients. further clinical trials investigating pah with lower dosages of bosentan may be warranted. results no adverse drug reaction was observed during the follow-up. clinical worsening occurred in six (14%) patients, at least one year after treatment, two of th...

introduction & objective: obesity is an independent risk factor of cardiovascular diseases. clinical studies have showed that the blood pressure is significantly related with the decrease of body weight. the objective of this study is to evaluate the trend of high blood pressure and also the trend of obesity based on the bmi during the three descriptive crosssectional studies, which have been d...