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Long-term Effects of Weight-Reducing Interventions in Hypertensive ... - 24 Mar 2008
Archives of Internal MedicineIn patients with essential hypertension, therapy with a weight loss diet or orlistat resulted in reductions in body weight and BP.
Sciatica - big nerve that causes big trouble - Mar 18, 2008
Pembroke Daily Observer,HM ANSWER: Eighty-five percent to 90 percent of people with high blood pressure have essential hypertension - high blood pressure whose cause isn't known.
NicOx initiates two large ABPM studies for naproxcinod in ... - Mar 2, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Patients will have a minimum age of 40 and be diagnosed with controlled essential hypertension and osteoarthritis, with at least one hip or knee involved.
THE LANCET Publishes Phase IIa Study Results with Cytos ... - Mar 7, 2008
PharmaLive.com (press release),National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Centre for Health Services Research, UK; Essential Hypertension: managing adult patients in
Preventing disease in children and teens - Feb 26, 2008
East Texas Review,Less often, children have what is called primary (or essential) hypertension. This means that the real cause of the high blood pressure is not known.
High Blood Pressure - Feb 27, 2008
CareStation,Essential hypertension (no discoverable organic cause) is the main cause of hypertension in the elderly population.
What is Conn's syndrome? - Feb 25, 2008
Irish Independent,The disease is often indistinguishable from essential hypertension, which is the gradual onset of high blood pressure when we age. The condition can usually
A Primer On Health Claims And Ingredients - Mar 6, 2008
Sun-Sentinel.com,..."In studies, where patients with chronically elevated blood pressure, called 'essential hypertension,' switched to a fish-based diet, their blood pressure
ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM NEWS - Mar 6, 2008
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism,2008] 168 (2):192) Cardiovascular events were more prevalent in patients with primary aldosteronism than in a matched cohort with essential hypertension
Heart Disease, second leading cause of death in Antique - Feb 25, 2008
News Today Online,...cardiovascular disease, cardiac arythemia, rheumatic heart disease, valvular heart disease, essential hypertension and central nervous system infection.
Preventing disease in children and teens - Feb 19, 2008
East Texas Review,Less often, children have what is called primary (or essential) hypertension. This means that the real cause of the high blood pressure is not known.
What causes high blood pressure? - Feb 8, 2008
TamilStar.com,Essential hypertension is a far more common condition and accounts for 95% of hypertension. The cause of essential hypertension is multifactorial, that is,
2007 Report Available Now on Hypertension and Its Causes - Jan 28, 2008
Business Wire (press release),This new account of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension (EH) represents a detailed analysis of the main components of the circulatory control system.
How is high blood pressure treated? - Feb 8, 2008
TamilStar.com,Essential hypertension may run in some families and occurs more often in the African American population, although the genes for essential hypertension have
Parents Can Prevent High Blood Pressure In Children - Feb 12, 2008
KETV.com,There are two types of hypertension: primary or essential hypertension and secondary hypertension. Secondary hypertension means that a specific cause of the
Preventing High Blood Pressure - Feb 1, 2008
Nigerian Tribune,In Essential Hypertension, usually a member (or more) of the family of the individual with hypertension will also be seen to be having an elevated blood
Hypertension – Symptoms, Complications of this Silent Killer - Feb 6, 2008
American Chronicle,Essential hypertension refers to the condition when there is no specific medical cause that could explain the occurrence. On the other hand,
Coronary health project to start - Feb 13, 2008
Wickenburg Sun,His research has been published in peer reviewed journals and medical textbooks showing that most people with essential hypertension, type 2 diabetes,
Diabetes Glossary of Terms - Jan 27, 2008
TamilStar.com,As in essential hypertension. "Essential" is a hallowed term meaning "We don't know the cause." Exogenous: Originating from outside the organism.
Health Watch - 29 Dec 2007
Organiser,Essential hypertension indicates that no specific medical cause can be found to explain a patient’s condition. Secondary hypertension indicate that the high
Sodium and asthma: something borrowed, something new? - Dec 7, 2007
AJP-Lung Physiology (subscription)Remission of essential hypertension after renal transplantation. N Engl J Med 309: 1009–1015, 1983.[Abstract] Dahl LK, Heine M, Thompson K. Genetic
Second Opinion: Ask the doctor - Dec 19, 2007
The Monitor, Uganda,Essential hypertension is that without found cause and is the commonest world over. With other types of hypertension where the cause is found,
Speedel Initiates SPP635 Phase IIa Study For Treatment Of ... - Dec 9, 2007
RTT News,...“This is yet another milestone for Speedel following the successful completion of our first Phase IIa trial with SPP635 in essential hypertension.
Know Your Sodium - Dec 20, 2007
NTV,Approximately 60% of the essential hypertension population is responsive to sodium intake [citation needed] . This is due to the fact that increasing
Olmetec® (olmesartan medoxomil) is first Angiotensin Receptor ... - Dec 18, 2007
PharmiWeb.com (press release),Munich Germany, 10th December: Olmetec® (olmesartan medoxomil), licensed in the UK for essential hypertension, is the first ARB to suggest a regression of
Sarasota's Roskamp Institute Highlights Positive Japanese Data ... - Dec 14, 2007
Earthtimes,...of a 20-month period, where a group of 15 amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients with essential hypertension were divided into two groups.
AHRQ Report Compares aceis, arbs - 27 Nov 2007
AAFP News NowTwo common classes of medications used to manage essential hypertension -- angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, or aceis, and angiotensin receptor
high blood pressure may not have a specific cause - Nov 2, 2007
The Australian,...can essential hypertension suddenly develop within about 10 weeks? i am 77, and in august my blood pressure was 140/80. in october i was scheduled for an
popular home remedies for hypertension - try it once - Nov 5, 2007
American Chronicle,...to arterial hypertension. hypertension can be classified as either essential (primary) or secondary. essential hypertension indicates that no specific
over-pressured: hypertension on the rise - Oct 29, 2007
FireRescue1,2004;6(12):675-681. carretero oa, oparil s. essential hypertension : part i: definition and etiology. circulation. 2000;101:329-335. jones dw, appel lj,
inhibitors of the renin–angiotensin system: proven benefits ... - Nov 5, 2007
Annals of Internal Medicine...and in patients with kidney disease. although both drug classes are highly effective in lowering blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension,
'silent killer' stalks kolkatans - Nov 4, 2007
Times of India,...say doctors. this is called essential hypertension and can sometimes be managed with exercise and diet alone. only in five per cent of the cases,
master switch that regulates blood pressure identified - Nov 1, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...which is rare, in a search for clues to how blood pressure is regulated in the more common form of high blood pressure, known as essential hypertension,
common medications provide equal blood pressure control - Nov 1, 2007
Earthtimes,...effectiveness of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (aceis) and angiotensin ii receptor antagonists (arbs) for treating essential hypertension,
EMS1.com News - Oct 11, 2007
EMS1.com - Emergency Medical Service Resources,About 90 percent of the time we don’t know for sure and use the terms ‘primary’ or ‘essential’ hypertension to describe it. ‘Essentially,’ we don’t have the
AHA-BP: Weight Loss Can Normalize Blood Pressure - Oct 1, 2007
MedPage Today,...loss alone can normalize hypertension but also that many overweight hypertensive patients have been misdiagnosed as having essential hypertension.
Why aspirin can help with hypertension - Sep 26, 2007
Nigerian Tribune,...as well as the risk of dyingfrom them, but also for the control of blood pressure in patients with mild or moderate essential hypertension.
Caring for Women With Hypertension in Pregnancy - Oct 2, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),1 Women are considered at low risk when they have mild essential hypertension without any target organ involvement, and Mrs F presumably would fall into
Weight link to high blood pressure - Sep 29, 2007
The Press Association...elevated blood pressure who were overweight, the blood pressure was not a form of essential hypertension but was hypertension secondary to body weight.
High Blood Pressure May Be Due To Excess Weight In Half Of ... - Sep 28, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...the blood pressure was not a form of essential hypertension but was hypertension secondary to body weight," said Roberto Fogari, MD, lead investigator
DAIICHI SANKYO EUROPE is Applying for Approval of its New ... - Oct 1, 2007
Earthtimes.orgWhen approved, the new combination for treatment of essential hypertension is designed for use in patients whose blood pressure cannot be adequately
Chronic Stress and the Heart - Oct 9, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Long-term elevations in blood pressure, also seen with essential hypertension (high blood pressure not related to stress), are harmful and can lead to
Children too can have hypertension - 10 Sep 2007
Nigerian Tribune,Primary (essential) hypertension has no known cause unlike the secondary type that is usually occasioned by the development of other diseases such as kidney
Lista 200 prac zaprezentowanych przez polskich autorów na ... - 10 Sep 2007
Polskie Towarzystwo Kardiologiczne,...[P3628] Arterial stiffness in relation to urinary aldosterone excretion and collagen metabolism in essential hypertension Authors: K. Stolarz,
Blood Pressure - Hypertension & Homoeopathy - Sep 5, 2007
SpiritIndia,Hypertension, hyperpiesia, high blood pressure, essential hypertension, the silent killer, problem of modern civilization are the epithets used to describe
Lancet and JAMA Focus on Blood Pressure - Aug 24, 2007
Medscape (subscription)Messerli FH, Williams B, Ritz E. Essential hypertension. Lancet 2007;370:591-603. Hansen ML, Gunn PW, Kaelber DC. Underdiagnosis of hypertension in children
The Southern Stroke Belt - Sep 8, 2007
Blogger News NetworkThere are lots of causes of high blood pressure, but most cases are “essential� hypertension and the cause is “idiopathic�. Essentially no one knows the
Major ADVANCE for Type 2 Diabetics - Sep 4, 2007
Canada NewsWire (press release),In 2002, Coversyl Plus was approved in Canada for the treatment of mild to moderate essential hypertension in patients for whom combination therapy is
Lancet focuses on blood pressure: Hypertension "uncontrolled and ... - Aug 22, 2007
TheHeart.Org,...accompanying seminar discussing essential hypertension, its treatments, associated comorbidities, and lessons learned from various clinical trials [2].
Ranbaxy gains US FDA approval to manufacture and market Carvedilol ... - Sep 6, 2007
PipelineReview.com (press release),...phase of a myocardial infarction, as well as in the management of essential hypertension, alone or in combination with other antihypertensive agents.
Actavis Launches Carvedilol Tablets In USA - Sep 6, 2007
eMaxHealth.com,...are indicated for the treatment of left ventricular dysfunction following myocardial infarction and for the management of essential hypertension.
Now the doctor's office is as close as your living room - Aug 27, 2007
LubbockOnline.com,They are experiencing an array of illnesses, such as coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, essential hypertension, diabetes type 2,
Dark chocolate - 10 Aug 2007
Consumer Reports...information: "For isolated systolic hypertension and essential hypertension, 100 grams/day of dark chocolate rich in cocoa polyphenols has been used.
High blood pressure in children - Aug 7, 2007
Jamaica Gleaner,Secondary hypertension is more common than essential hypertension, but the frequency of the latter has risen by up to 48.3 per cent in some series,
Ask the doc - Aug 4, 2007
Hindu,Name withheld Answer: Hypertension detected prior to 20 weeks of pregnancy is generally due to essential hypertension unless there were other complications.
Vitamin C combats hypertension - Aug 4, 2007
Online - International News Network,ISLAMABAD: There is increasing evidence that free radicals (reactive oxygen species) play a significant role in essential hypertension (high blood pressure)
Hypertensive patients with “reverse white-coat hypertension� are ... - Jul 30, 2007
Renal and Urology News,MD, and his colleagues at the National Cardiovascular Center in Suita , Japan , studied 267 patients (mean age, 66 years) with essential hypertension.
Heart, brain, digestive organs function better with physical exercises - Aug 1, 2007
Nigerian Tribune,Dr Muyiwa Ijarotimi, an Ibadan-based medical doctor cum banker, speaking with Your Health said "the risk of essential hypertension increases with factors
Aliskiren/Valsartan Combination Trial Published: What Does It Mean - Jul 23, 2007
Medscape (subscription)Included were patients older than 18 years with stage 1 or 2 essential hypertension with sitting diastolic BP of 95 to less than 110 mm Hg and 8-hour
Genesis Partner Lotus Pharmaceuticals Forecasts Sales Exceeding ... - Jul 25, 2007
Primenewswire (press release),Valsartan Dropping Pills, a patented medicine exclusively produced by our company for the treatment of medium and critical degree essential hypertension,
Primary Aldosteronism Common in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and ... - Jul 3, 2007
Medscape (subscription)...accounting for 10 - 32% of the patients with essential hypertension and 50% of patients with nondiuretic-induced hypokalemia.
Telmisartan May Significantly Slow The Progression Of Diabetic ... - Jun 19, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),20%; p= 0.0284)1, despite similar blood pressure control.1 Telmisartan is licensed for the treatment of essential hypertension. Commenting on the results,
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use Summary of Positive ... - Jun 22, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),The approved indication is: treatment of essential hypertension. Detailed recommendations for the use of this product will be described in the Summary of
Over 60% Of Patients With Seemingly Well Controlled Blood Pressure ... - Jun 19, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Indication: essential hypertension. Dose: adults only: usually 40mg once daily, range 20-80mg. Can be used together with thiazide-type diuretics.
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艾瑞网,Chinese herbal medicine: hyperviscosmia,essential hypertension, coronary heart disease, fundus heamorrage, bronchitis, emphysema, chronic gastritis,
Nondipping nocturnal blood pressure tied to greater ischemic brain ... - Jun 15, 2007
Medicexchange (press release),All had at least one sibling with essential hypertension. In blacks, higher awake, asleep, and 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure were
Prexige® Study Shows Significantly Less Impact On Blood Pressure ... - Jun 16, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Effect of indomethacin on blood pressure in elderly people with essential hypertension well controlled on amlodipine or enalapril.
Meeting Highlights From The Committee For Medicinal Products For ... - Jun 26, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Rasilez, Enviage, Sprimeo, Tekturna and Riprazo (aliskiren), from Novartis Europharm Ltd, for the treatment of essential hypertension.
Market Report -- In Play (KG) - May 21, 2007
MSN MoneyALTACE 20mg once daily in patients with Stage 2 Essential Hypertension defined as blood pressure equal to or greater than 160 mmHg SBP or 100 mmHg DBP.
Mystery illnesses aren't so unusual - May 27, 2007
Orlando Sentinel,The most common form, however, is called "essential hypertension," reflecting the fact that we don't know what causes the condition.
What Is The Link Between High Blood Pressure And Anxiety? Posted ... - May 6, 2007
Business Portal 24 (press release),Essential hypertension is said to occur when there is no recognizable medical cause for the problem, whereas secondary hypertension is a result of anot.
Hypertension, a Silent Killer Next Door - May 8, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Essential hypertension has no identifiable cause. It may be caused by genetics, environmental factors, or even diet, such as how much salt one uses.
New Data Highlights Potential of SPP100 (Tekturna) as Gold ... - May 21, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),...of plasma renin activity that were maintained during long-term (12 months) treatment in patients with mild-to moderate essential hypertension.
Urinary Free Cortisol: An Intermediate Phenotype and a Potential ... - Apr 4, 2007
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism,Context: Emerging evidence suggests a role for cortisol in essential hypertension, and preliminary reports indicate that urinary free cortisol (UFC) may be
New combination treatment for hypertension - Apr 2, 2007
Healthcare RepublicIn two placebo-controlled trials, 1 over 1400 hypertensive patients with mild to moderate uncomplicated essential hypertension (mean sitting diastolic blood
Theobroma Cacao - "Food of the Gods" - Apr 10, 2007
ScienceBlogsOn migration to Panama City, blood pressure rises with age, and the frequency of essential hypertension matches urban levels elsewhere.
Cocoa, but Not Tea, Lowers Blood Pressure - Apr 11, 2007
Medscape (subscription)BP was most likely to be reduced in young individuals with mild essential hypertension, and reduction was less likely in elderly subjects with hypertension
Blaylock Wellness Report - Apr 9, 2007
NewsMax.com,What “essential hypertension� is...and why medical experts say they don't have a clue why 90% of hypertensives suffer from it.
Case 12-2007 — A 56-Year-Old Woman with Renal Failure after Heart ... - Apr 18, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),When the patient was 31 years old, the results of an antinuclear antibody test were positive; when she was 34 years old, essential hypertension was
Psychiatric Disorders: A Conceptual Taxonomy - Apr 2, 2007
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)..."Diseases" such as essential hypertension, osteoporosis, and multifactorial hypercholesterolemia have been characterized and are now a major focus of
Report to World Health Organisation says world’s food is still far ... - Apr 10, 2007
innovations report,...he points that few countries are following the recommendation of the WHO technical report on primary prevention of essential hypertension and the joint
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