Aims: High blood pressure is one of the common main preventable risk factors for many diseases. This study aimed to psychometric properties of the cognitive determinants of hypertension self-management questionnaire among Iranian hypertensive patients based on the Intervention Mapping approach. Instrument & Methods: This psychometric study was conducted in Abadan in 2019. Content Validity Rati...

Hypertension is critical risk factor of fatal cardiovascular diseases and multiple organ damage. Early detection hypertension even at pre-hypertension stage helpful in preventing the forthcoming complications. Electrocardiogram (ECG) has been attempted to observe changes electrical activities hearts hypertensive patients. To automate ECG assessment hypertension, an interpretable hybrid model pr...

to evaluate the value of random urinary protein creatinine ratio in prediction of 24h proteinuria in hypertensive pregnancies. method: random urine samples and routine 24h urine collections were collected from hypertensive pregnant women (n=100). reliability of random urinary protein-creatinine ratio was assessed by receiver operator characteristic (roc) curve to detect significant proteinuria ...

Background The association between alcohol and blood pressure (BP) may be related to the temporal sequencing of alcohol use and BP measurement. We investigated the effects of single and repeated intakes of alcohol on 24-hour BP. Methods and Results Fourteen male habitual drinkers with essential hypertension were placed sequentially on a 4-day control phase: a nonalcoholic drink with the same ca...

how to cite this article: sharifian m. hypertensive encephalopathy. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3):1-7. hypertension is called the silent killer and vital organs such as the brain, eyes,kidneys and the heart are the targets. seizure, central nervous system (cns)hemorrhage, and cerebrovascular accident (cva), blindness and heart attacksare the end points.the prevalence of hypertension in childre...

background: lack of knowledge, attitude and practice are some of the barriers of having a healthy lifestyle and controlling high blood pressure. this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a lifestyle modification program on knowledge, attitude and practice of hypertensive patients with angioplasty. methods: this study was a randomized controlled clinical trial conducted from november to...

chronic kidney disease (ckd) is probably the most important problem of public health in advanced countries. kidneys are often damaged as a result of high blood pressure. one of our main concerns in patients with hypertension is early detection of kidney disorders. the routine biomarkers such as creatinine have some limitation for this purpose, however recent studies suggest plasma ngal to be a ...