Simple blood test may be able to predict risk of preeclampsia
...oms of insulin resistance -- including obesity and hypertension -- are also associated with preeclampsia. Those women who went on to develop preeclampsia were found to have had reduced levels of the protein SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) in their first-trimester blood tests much more frequently than were w...Mayo Clinic researchers find significant renal artery stenosis among hypertensive patients
...a screening X-ray of the aorta among patients with hypertension undergoing coronary angiography is safe and identi...end routine angioplasty," Dr. Rihal said. Systemic hypertension is the most commonly recorded cardiovascular abnormality that affects more than 65 million people in...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April (second issue)
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... including diabetes, anti-diabetic medication use, hypertension and anti-hypertension medicine use, levels of blood fats (lipids) and tobacco smoking. Nonetheless, even after adjusting for these factors, hazard ratios remained higher for mortality from all causes when comparing Mexico- and U.S.-born Hispanics to...Male/female health differences during life's final season
... State researcher says. "For example, men who had hypertension and had experienced a heart attack rated their health Good' as often as women who had arthritis and back problems." The researchers write: "Women reported more total health problems, not life-threatening health conditions, somewhat life-threatening c...Heavy drinkers bear the heavy burden of bleeding stroke
... to non-drinkers. Other important factors included hypertension (high blood pressure), smoking and having a relati...yielded conflicting findings regarding the role of hypertension in SAH. However, Kissela and his colleagues found a strong association between the two. The increas...XALACOM more effective than Cosopt for IOP reduction in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertens
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WASHINGTON Peoples risk for hypertension associated with having a parental history of hypertension may be influenced by observing how their parents handled stress, says researchers who examined relat...Asian immigrants likely to see blood pressure rise
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... are the cornerstone for future efforts to control hypertension one of the nations major health care burdens acc...ople have their blood pressure measured, and their hypertension recognized and treated, says Daniel W. Jones, M.D., co-author of the editorial and associate dean of...CONVINCE trial results unveiled at annual hypertension meeting
An international hypertension study of more than 16,000 patients found that pati...ed diastolic blood pressure - a new record for any hypertension clinical study. CONVINCE provided clear evidence that blood pressure goals can be reached but that ...Preliminary US study findings support excellent results with CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Stent
...abetics (28%); patients with hyperlipidemia (72%), hypertension (70%), multivessel disease (42%); and patients who have previously undergone percutaneous coronary interventions or coronary artery bypass surgery (37%). Dr. Moses noted that at 9-month clinical follow-up, there was a 72% reduction in target lesion r...USC researchers suggest possible cause for kidney cancer
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...in each of the five disease stages. Treatments for hypertension and reduction of coronary artery disease have helped delay the onset of congestive heart failure. In the 1950s, the average age of disease onset was 57.3 years. By the 1980s, it was 76.4 years. In projecting the impact of drug development on Alzheime...