background: early detection of proneness to hypertension may help an individual to lead a healthy life by altering the life style. subjects having the predisposing factors of hypertension tend to show higher and prolonged responsiveness to blood pressure following stress. methods: normotensive, non-smoking healthy sedentary male students and staff of nepal medical college (n=50, age group 18-35...

conclusions results of this study did not support the hypothesis that dairy products consumption protects against mets and its components. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 785 adolescent aged 10 to 19 years, participated from the fourth phase of the tehran lipid and glucose study. usual dietary intake was assessed using a valid semi quantitative food frequency questionnaire. ...

background: antispasmodic and vasorelaxant effects of teucrium polium l . (tp) were mentioned in former studies, so we attempted to evaluate the eventual preventive effect of tp in an acute experimental model of hypertension induced by angiotensin ii (ang ii). methods: forty‑eight male wistar rats were divided randomly into six groups ( n = 8); control group (c), which received only saline, gro...

nitric oxide is an important vasorelaxant factor that it inhibits platelet adhesion and proliferation of smooth muscle cells. no is synthesized from l-arginine by means of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (enos) which is an isoform of  nitric oxide synthase.in the present study, we examined  possible association between the 27 base pair (bp) repeat  polymorphism in intron 4 of the  enos3 gene ...

introduction crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by infection with a tick-borne virus from the family of bunyaviridae. this viral hemorrhagic fever is found throughout central asia, southern europe, africa and the middle east. transmission to humans occurs through contact with infected animals or tick bite. the first human cases of infectious hemorrhagic f...

congenital generalized lipodystrophy (cgl) is a rare and progressive disorder (1 in 12 milion). common clinical manifestations are lipoatrophy, acromegaloid feature, acanthosis nigricans, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus or abnormal glucose tolerance test.â rarely fatty liver and cirrhosis is seen. the highest number reported in literature is 8 cases from brazil and 6 cases from scandinavia, r...

background: ferula persica has been used in traditional medicine for treatment of high blood pressure. in this study acute and chronic effect of aqueous f. persica extract on bp of hypertensive rats and its possible mechanism of action have been investigated. methods: eighty two male wistar rats were divided into 12 experimental groups. hypertension was induced by goldblatt method in the anesth...

background : hypertension is a risk factor for life threatening diseases such as cerebrovascular accidents, coronary artery diseases, congestive heart failure and chronic renal failure. the prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes including obesity has increased over the past few years in iran. the first step for modification of cardiovascular diseases in a defi...

background: both vitamin d deficiency and hypertension are prevalent in the general population. several observations indicate an association between vitamin d deficiency and high blood pressure. the present case-control study aimed to compare serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d (25-ohd) in hypertensive patients versus healthy controls. methods: one hundred patients aged 30-60 years with hypertension (htn...