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Arsenic in drinking water

...clear-cut. For example, some studies have reported hypertensive and cardiovascular disease, diabetes and reproductive effects. Exposure to arsenic via drinking-water has been shown to cause a severe disease of blood vessels leading to gangrene in China (Province of Taiwan), known as ‘black foot disease’. This di...

Aliskiren: A New Treatment For Hypertension

...-tolerated drugs, a significant portion of treated hypertensive patients remain uncontrolled and face serious morbidity and mortality as a consequence, said the researchers. Current drug therapies for hypertension include diuretics, beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, aldosterone rece...

Household Activities Can Reduce Blood Pressure

...participants' blood pressure by a category -- from hypertensive to prehypertensive and from prehypertensive to normal -- for an average of eight and six hours, respectively. These preliminary findings indicate that these lifestyle physical activities can be as effective as or more effective than other lifestyle ...

Drug Spironolactone Provides Renal And Cardioprotection In Diabetic Patients

... levels leading to kidney dysfunction. Most of the hypertensive drugs may be useful in diabetic patients already having kidney damage, but does not protect these patients prior to occurrence. The study was conducted in 21 diabetic patients with type 2 diabetes, the patients were asked to take spironolactone for 8...

Association Of Breast Arterial Calcifications With Diabetes And Hypertension

...using antihypertensive agents were included in the hypertensive group. Diabetes was defined as use of oral hypogly... more in diabetic patients and three times more in hypertensive patients than in NDNH controls. Findings from this study suggest that there might be a potential r...

Blood Pressure Later Leads to Cognitive Problems

... inadequately treated, leaving nearly 40% of older hypertensive people with continued high readings in spite of undergoing treatment. As a result, the findings suggest that a substantial number of older people with uncontrolled hypertension will experience significant cognitive declines, especially because with a...

Designer Rats Reveal Possible Heart Disease Genes

...ex condition? How, and why, do some animals become hypertensive when consuming high-salt diets, while others stay ...mportant change: one chromosome from the parental, hypertensive rat was substituted with the homologous chromosome from a healthy rat. In this way, the team generat...

Positive Airway Pressure the Treatment for Sleep Apnea

...choose it as a strategy to lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients with sleep apnea....

Gene alteration observed in children turning into adults

...ounger age. This research could significantly help hypertensive patients and maybe fond a preventive cure....

Link Established Between FSD and High Blood Pressure

... rates gradually increased in older versus younger hypertensive women and that the longer a woman had hypertension...iliar with FSD and routinely address it with their hypertensive patients.’ Source: Newsise...

Hypertension linked to Female Sexual Dysfunction

... rates gradually increased in older versus younger hypertensive women and that the longer a woman had hypertension the more likely she was to experience sexual dysfunction. These findings are significant because although hypertension affects more than 20 per cent of the population and is a known risk factor for...

Combination Drug Therapy For Hypertension

...to Neutel’s study, 27.5% of the difficult to treat hypertensive patients with blood pressure targets lower than those without diabetes could reach a target of 130/80 mm Hg compared to 12.5% on monotherapy. Neutel in a press conference to UPI highlighted the importance of combination therapy to reach the target ...

Childhood Obesity Cause For Increasing Concerns

... research explained that obese kids tend to become hypertensive and that combination could get pretty overwhelming. Dr de Simone's and his team of researchers carried out their studies on 460 adolescents from American Indian communities in Arizona, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota, examining their heart ...

High Blood Pressure Could Result In Structural Damage Of Heart

... for the understanding of cardiac insufficiency in hypertensive patients, as well as early detection and possible ... the heart by arterial hypertension (the so-called hypertensive cardiopathy) constitute the principal cause of cardiac insufficiency, especially in women of advance...

Studies Advocate Natural Form Of Vitamin E

...re a stroke significantly reduced stroke injury in hypertensive rats. In the more recent study published in the Journal of Neurochemistry, researchers observed the effects of TCT on neurological damage that can be caused in two different ways: through the presence of homocysteic acid, which in excess can cause ...

Fat Metabolism Of Heart Muscles Affected By High Blood Pressure

...hat by looking at the genetics of hypertension and hypertensive heart disease, they hope to identify genes that predispose people to both good and bad traits associated with these disorders. Such information promises opportunities for both prevention and treatment of cardiac disease. Source: Eurekalet...

Coversyl Demonstrates Clinical Benefits in Elderly Patients

...ly found to be elderly, more often women, commonly hypertensive but less likely to have a history of myocardial infarction. The study involved 850 patients of 70 years or older. The objective of the study was to compare the effects of Coversyl and placebo on morbidity and mortality in older patients withclinical...

Genetic Link To High Blood Pressure

...ncreased levels of the activated form of myosin in hypertensive rats, a widely used animal model of hypertension. ...ght chain kinase, which activates myosin, in their hypertensive rats than in closely related rats that do not develop hypertension. They also found that there was m...

Stroke Linked to High Pollution Levels

...se blood pressure. In other studies more untreated hypertensive patients had cerebral haemorrhage than had other types of stroke and blood pressure is more strongly associated with haemorrhagic stroke than with ischaemic stroke." Previous research had revealed that the effects of air pollution make their prese...

Hypertensive Kids at risk of sleep disordered breathing

...ve hypoventilation). In the study, 60 percent of hypertensive children had a condition called sleep disordered b...dren have SDB. In comparison, the current study of hypertensive children shows 59 percent (10 patients) with enlarged tonsils and 65 percent (11 patients) with obes...

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