BACKGROUND Hypertension is the most prevalent and modifiable risk factor for atrial fibrillation. The pressure overload in the left atrium induces pathophysiological changes leading to alterations in contractile function and electrical properties. OBJECTIVE In this study our aim was to assess left atrial function in hypertensive patients to determine the association between left atrial functi...

abstract  introduction: hypertension is the most prevalent chronic disease encountered by physicians. its prevalence has been reported at 18% in isfahan province. hypertension control decreases the risk of stroke and coronary events by 50% and 15%, respectively. according to the world health organization (who), the rate of blood pressure control stands at 12.5%. effective hypertension control r...

apium graveolence has an small brown olyptical seed with pharmacological activity. to evaluate it's application in treatment of hypertension, 37 hypertensive patients (20 female, 17 male) with the age range of 45-65 were given 6 grams of powder of apium graveolence seed and then the blood pressures before and after the remedy were compared. before treatment, the mean systolic blood pressur...

Introduction: World Health Organization (WHO) introduced hypertension as an epidemic in developing countries. However, hypertension is adequately controlled in only 12.5% of patients.  The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between Ramadan fasting and mean arterial pressure (MAP). Methods: This clinical, observational study was carried out at Medical O.P.D of Jinnah Medical Coll...

OBJECTIVE To compare survival and cause specific mortality in hypertensive men with non-hypertensive men derived from the same random population, and to study mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular diseases in the hypertensive men in relation to effects on cardiovascular risk factors during 22-23 years of follow up. DESIGN Prospective, population based observational study. SUBJECTS AND...

Hindquarter peripheral resistance, calculated as arterial pressure divided by hindquarter blood flow, decreased significantly on ganglionic blockade with hexamethonium bromide in four kinds of experimentally hypertensive rats, i.e. spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), DOCA-salt hypertensive rats, and one-kidney, one-clip and two-kidney, one-clip renovascular hypertensive rats, but not in norm...

OBJECTIVE Increasing evidence suggests that T helper (Th) cells play a significant role in the pathogenesis of hypertension. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of obesity and anti-hypertensive treatment on urinary Th1 chemokines. METHODS The study groups consisted of three types of patients: hypertensive obese, healthy, and non-hypertensive obese. Pre-treatment and post-treatmen...

abstractintroduction: athough a controversial issue, the metabolic syndrome (ms) is known to by be related to certain genetic and lifestyle factors such as hypertension. the object of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of ms and its association to hypertension among diabetic patients with and without hypertension, in the fatemeh zahra hospital in najafabad, iran. materials and methods: th...

Hypertension is a common chronic medical condition affecting over 65 million Americans. Uncontrolled hypertension can progress to a hypertensive crisis defined as a systolic blood pressure >180 mm Hg or a diastolic blood pressure >120 mm Hg. Hypertensive crisis can be further classified as a hypertensive urgency or hypertensive emergency depending on end-organ involvement including cardiac, ren...