Browsing by Subject "Hypertension"
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Antioxidant, Antihypertensive and Lipid Lowering Properties of Fruit Vinegar Beverages
(2012-12-07)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is ranked as one of top leading causes of death in most industrialized countries. Recent research suggests that fruit vinegar beverages (FVB) possess beneficial effects such as antihypertensive ... -
Cellular and Subcellular Mechanisms of Ventricular Mechano-Arrhythmogenicity
(2021-07-15)The heart is an electro-mechanical pump with feedback mechanisms for responding to acute changes in its mechanical environment. This requires cellular and subcellular elements of cardiac mechano-sensitivity, including ... -
Characterization of the Early Cellular Mechanisms Promoting Myocardial Fibrosis
(2012-08-17)Myocardial fibrosis is a common pathological finding in patients with cardiovascular disease and is believed to be a major contributing factor in the development of end stage organ failure. Early events that promote the ... -
An Evaluation of the Impact of Physician Education on Prescribing for Hypertension in a Nursing Home
(2014-12-09)Background: Nursing home residents are a frail population with multiple co-morbidities, and at risk for polypharmacy and its associated adverse events. Nevertheless, most clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) do not consider ... -
Haptoglobin Phenotype, Intensive Blood Pressure Control, and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, and Stroke within the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Randomized Control Trial
(2024-07-17)Background: A relationship between hypertension and risk of CVD is widely reported in T2DM. However, clinical studies of intensive blood pressure control therapy (targeting a systolic pressure of less than 120mm Hg) or ... -
Predicting Hypertension by Twenty Years Postpartum Using Perinatal Data
(2020-05-07)Study Design For a population-based cohort of 90,316 women with deliveries recorded in the Nova Scotia Atlee Perinatal Database between 1988 and 2009, pregnancy-related data were linked with provincial administrative ...