... ischemic. Cardiac causes {OR: 8.42 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.01–23.5)}; binge drinking of alcohol (OR: 5.44 [95% CI: 1.81–16.4]); hypertension (OR: 5.41 [95% CI: 3.40–8.58]); ApoB/ApoA1 ratio (OR: 2.74 [95% CI: 1.69–4.46]); psychosocial stress (OR: 2.33 [95% CI: 1.01–5.41]); smoking (OR: 1.85 [95...

... from Medicare Parts A, B, and D administrative claims data on hypertension, ischemic heart disease, heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, prescriptions of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II receptors blockers, calcium channel blockers, beta blockers...

...Mulalibieke Heizhati; Nanfang Li; Lin Wang; Jing Hong; Mei Li; Wenbo Yang; Ling Yao; Mengyue Lin; Fengyu Pan; Zhikang Yang; Zhongrong Wang; Reyila Abudereyimu Background: Relationship between hypertension and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) remains undetermined in population from less-developed...

...Jiahao Chen; Caixia Zhang; Yanjun Wu; Dongfeng Zhang Background: The results of analytical studies show that the association between hypertension and the risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD) remains controversial. Method: We searched studies related to the association between hypertension and the risk...

... disease, and measures of cerebral atrophy including ventricular and sulcal grade and total brain volume. Clinical risk factors included measures of hypertension, diabetes, and high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Regression models adjusted for potential confounders were used...

... 1.16-1.75). Also, diabetics, hypertension, cardiac disease, and statin drugs were associated with increased risk of dementia but negative association was observed in the case of body mass index. There was significant statistical and clinical heterogeneity among studies for the main analysis and most...

...Yuesong Pan; Xingquan Zhao; Yong Jiang; Hao Li; Limin Wang; Liping Liu; Chunxue Wang; Jing Jing; Jie Xu; Xia Meng; Mei Zhang; Yichong Li; Yong Zhou; Wenhua Zhao; Yilong Wang; Yongjun Wang Background: Hypertension is a major risk factor for stroke recurrence in patients with transient ischemic...

... as the multiplicity of risk factors in different age groups and among subtypes. Methods: In the Lund Stroke Register, we consecutively enrolled 2,505 patients with first-ever ischemic stroke from 2001 to 2009 and registered hypertension, diabetes mellitus, heart disease, current smoking, hypercholesterolemia as well...

.... Alzheimer’s disease Hypertension Hypotension Review Neuroepidemiology 2010;35:202 212 DOI: 10.1159/000316872 Received: February 16, 2010 Accepted: June 9, 2010 Published online: July 21, 2010 Effects of Blood Pressure Changes on Alzheimer s Disease Carlos A. Feldstein Hospital de Clínicas, University...

... of 767 subjects (54% men), 444 were cognitively normal, 234 had MCI and 89 had AD. AD was significantly associated with hypertension (p = 0.01; OR = 2.08; 95% CI: 1.18–3.65), age (p < 0.0001; OR = 1.19; 95% CI: 1.14–1.24), female gender (p = 0.0016; OR = 3.06; 95% CI: 1.53–6.15) and education (p...

... Antihypertensive agents Hypertension Abstract Background: Recent interest in antihypertensive agents, especially calcium channel blockers, has been sparked by the notion that these medications may be neuroprotective. A modest literature, with mixed results, has examined whether these medications might lower...

...Arkadiusz Siennicki-Lantz; Faina Reinprecht; Per Wollmer; Sölve Elmståhl Aim: Smoking and hypertension are known causes of stroke and dementia. This study was designed to test the longitudinal effect of lifestyle factors and hypertension on cerebral blood flow (CBF) in old age. Method: A study...

... and subcortical areas of the brain. Many cardiovascular risk factors such as older age, hypertension, and smoking have been suggested as risk factors for WMD in the periventricular and subcortical areas of the brain. However, no epidemiologic study has examined the associations between cardiovascular risk factors...

... and 2,320 controls were analyzed as potential PD risk factors. The risk of PD was significantly reduced among smokers, hypertensives, coffee drinkers and alcohol consumers, and significantly increased among those with 3 or more children and with a high intake of total vitamin A and dietary vitamin C...

...Takeo Nakayama; Tetsuji Yokoyama; Nobuo Yoshiike; Mohammad Mostafa Zaman; Chigusa Date; Heizo Tanaka; Roger Detels We determined the population attributable fraction (PAF) of stroke due to hypertension (HT), atrial fibrillation (Af) and smoking in a Japanese community. Residents of Shibata (n...

... Cognition Hypertension Original Paper Neuroepidemiology 2000;19:30 42 Clinical Correlates of Ventricular and Sulcal Size on Cranial Magnetic Resonance Imaging of 3,301 Elderly People The Cardiovascular Health Study W.T. Longstreth Jr. a Alice M. Arnold b Teri A. Manolio c Gregory L. Burke d Nick Bryan e...

...Gary H. Friday Hypertension is a major cause of stroke in the African-American community, and lack of control of hypertension appears to be common. Improving compliance to antihypertensive therapy in African-American stroke patients could have a significant impact on recurrent stroke rates. Little...

... than in controls (42 vs. 20% in either control group, p < 0.01). Subgroup analysis showed an overrepresentation of low cholesterols in probable hypertensive hemorrhage (47%, p < 0.05) but not in probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy (27%, p = 0.5). Low cholesterol increased the odds for hemorrhage...

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... Hypertension Primary prevention Program evaluation Risk factors Original Paper Neuroepidemiology 1998;17:179 187 Matthias Sitzer a Michael Skuttaa Mario Sieblera Gerhard Sitzerc Johannes Siegrist b Helmuth Steinmetz a Modifiable Stroke Risk Factors in Volunteers Willing to Participate in a Prevention...