...Xiaoyun Shi; Siduo Zhang; Jinghui Li; Yilang Ke; Yajing Bai Introduction: Hypertension can accelerate and aggravate the process of arterial ageing and calcification. However, the mechanism behind has yet to be well elucidated. Methods: Here, we monitored the dynamic changes of fibronectin (FN)/α5...

... (BP) due to autonomic dysfunction are a frequent non-motor symptom of PD [ 5 ]. In addition to postprandial and neurologic orthostatic hypotension, supine and nocturnal hypertension (HTN) is also experienced by patients with PD, suggesting impairment of BP regulation in these patients [ 5 ]. PD...

...Zhi-yi Li; Si Lv; Jie Qiao; Si-qi Wang; Fang Ji; Dan Li; Jie Yan; Yan Wei; Lin Wu; Changzhen Gao; Miao-ling Li Introduction: Attenuating cardiac fibroblasts activation contributes to reducing excessive extracellular matrix deposition and cardiac structural remodeling in hypertensive hearts...

... a screening CVRF campaign in the western suburbs of Paris (32,692 subjects), we individualized 6,577 subjects aged 65 years and over. All conventional CVRFs have been systematically assessed. Results: The screening allowed to suspect hypertension in a larger proportion of subjects over 65 years compared...

...) characteristics of long-lived and average life span men in our prior case-control study of PIK3R1 genotypes [ 13 ]. By December 31, 2019, 3,533 of 3,568 of the subjects had died during the 29 years of follow-up from examination 4. At examination 4 (baseline) among the 3,568 participants, 53% had hypertension...

... of hypertension has been a major focus of Japanese health policy over recent decades. In the West, hypertension is strongly associated with sociodemographic and behavioral (smoking and body mass index, BMI) factors; studies of the association between sociodemographic factors and biological indicators have...

.... 2011 Alcohol consumption Atherosclerotic disease Diabetes mellitus Elderly Hypertension Lipid disorder Metabolic syndrome Clinical Section / Original Paper Gerontology 2012;58:24 31 DOI: 10.1159/000323080 Received: August 17, 2010 Accepted: November 25, 2010 Published online: January 26...

..., the first conducted in Switzerland [Cornu: Rev Med Suisse Rom 1979;99:107–113] and the second in Nebraska [Lakkireddy et al.: Am J Cardiol 2003;92:1249–1251], we found a higher frequency of left ventricular hypertrophy that was compatible with the prevalence of hypertension in our centenarians (33.3...

...Bayasgalan Gombojav; Sang-Wook Yi; Jae Woong Sull; Chung Mo Nam; Heechoul Ohrr Background: Previous studies have shown links between cognitive impairment and hypertension as well as mortality. However, combined effects of these two conditions on mortality have not been fully explored. Objective...

...S.K. Ghosh; E.B. Ekpo; I.U. Shah; A.J. Girling; C. Jenkins; A.J. Sinclair We have investigated the effect on blood pressure of treatment with vitamin C (an antioxidant and free radical scavenger) in patients with both systolic and essential hypertension. Following a 2-week run-in phase, two age...

...Richard E. Tracy; Linda K. Johnson Age-related sclerosis of human renocortical arteries is associated with essential hypertension and limitation of the life span by cardiovascular mortality. Arteries in the kidneys of nonprimate species, examined here, showed near absence of arteriosclerosis when...

...M. Iwase; M. Wada; N. Shinohara; H. Yoshizumi; M. Yoshinari; M. Fujishima We studied the effect of maternal diabetes induced by neonatal streptozotocin treatment on the longevity of the male offspring in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Maternal diabetes significantly decreased the survival...

...Hiroshi Yao; Tetsuhiko Nagao; Hiroaki Ooboshi; Takashi Matsumoto; Makoto Hirano; Tatsuo Nakahara; Seizo Sadoshima; Hideyuki Uchimura; Masatoshi Fujishima Effects of aging on monoamine metabolism in transient cerebral ischemia were studied using adult and aged female spontaneously hypertensive rats...

...Michael Sagiv; Ehud Goldhammer; Michael L. Pollock; James E. Graves; Adam Schneewiss; David Ben-Sira Endurance exercise is usually prescribed with caution for hypertensive patients because of the possible adverse effects of increased blood pressure on cardiorespiratory function. Cardiopulmonary...

.... Leuko-araiosis Event-related potential (P300) MRI Periventricular hyper-intensity Hypertension Clinical Section Gerontology 1992;38:233-240 Kazuya Yamashita Shotai Kobayashi Hitoshi Fukuda Shuhei Yamaguchi Hiromi Koide Third Division of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University, Izumo, Japan...

..., the Cal/CaT ratios were inversely correlated with body weight, diastolic blood pressure and plasma glucose. The findings and calculations help to explain some inconsistencies and discrepancies in previous studies concerning calcaemia in diabetes, hypertension and the ‘metabolic syndrome’ of clustered risk...

...Hiroshi Nojima Possible roles for molecular genetical approaches to understand the pathogenesis of hypertension are briefly reviewed. To elucidate observed alterations in hypertensive subjects at both molecular and systemic levels in a comprehensive way, a model (a working hypothesis...

...Tamas Fűlőp; Gyula Kurta; Piroska Varga; Imre Wórum; József Csongor; András Leővey The occurrence of hypertension, leading to various life-threatening complications in the elderly is a widely recognized problem. The changes of body composition were determined in 120 control and untreated...

... kcal) on blood pressure and heart rate were studied in 15 healthy normotensive elderly subjects (mean age 79.5 ± 6.0 years), in 10 healthy hypertensive elderly subjects (mean age 80.2 ± 5.7 years) and in 22 hypertensive elderly subjects (mean age 71.4 ± 5.0 years) treated with antihypertensive...

...) with uncomplicated essential hypertension, to evaluate the efficacy and tolerance of enalapril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor. It was given over an 8-week period in doses from 20 to 40 mg/day and was compared with an identical placebo. Enalapril caused a significant reduction in systolic blood pressure...