ALLMedicine™ Hypertension Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - Although vaccination reduces the risk of severe COVID-19, fatal COVID-19 cases after vaccination can occur. We examined the characteristics of decedents with COVID-19-related mortality to help inform discussions about vaccination, boosters, and mi...

Mar 18th, 2023 - SOX17 at the Intersection of Sex, Transcription, and Metabolism in Pulmonary Hypertension.|2023|Lin S,Frank DB,|

Mar 18th, 2023 - Background Cardiac failure is the primary cause of death in most patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH). As pleiotropic cytokines, human resistin (Hresistin) and its rodent homolog, resistin-like molecule α, are mechanistically critica...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Since the start of the pandemic, over 400 million COVID-19 swab tests have been conducted in the UK with a non-trivial number associated with skull base injury. Given the continuing use of nasopharyngeal swabs, further cases of swab-associated sku...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Background Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) frequently develops in patients with long-standing pulmonary hypertension, and both pathologies are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to improve prognostic assessment in pat...

Feb 14th, 2023 - In early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, persons who recovered from infection had increased risks for new-onset cardiometabolic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.1-3 In the current pandemic phase, which is dominated b...

Jan 16th, 2023 - The acute hepatic porphyrias (AHP) are rare, inborn errors of heme-metabolism and include acute intermittent porphyria, hereditary coproporphyria, variegate porphyria, and porphyria due to severe deficiency of 5-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase. Ac...

Jan 3rd, 2023 - High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a sweetener made from cornstarch. Corn sweeteners have several advantages over sugar, such as freshness, no color or flavor, and low price (1-3). Widespread use of the Western diet is believed to play an importan...

Dec 21st, 2022 - DALLAS, Dec. 21, 2022 — Drinking two or more cups of coffee a day may double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease among people with severe high blood pressure (160/100 mm Hg or higher) but not people with high blood pressure not considere...

Dec 7th, 2022 - We aimed to determine whether the addition of yoga to a regular exercise training regimen improves cardiometabolic risk profile.

Mar 16th, 2023 - Cerebral Vascular Accidents (stroke) and Myocardial Infarction (MI), which share the same risk factors, treatments and pathophysiological mechanisms, have become two major public health problems due to the increase in their prevalence rate and the...

Mar 15th, 2023 - Diabetic nephropathy(DN) is one of the major micro- vascular complications of diabetes mellitus and the leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) that require renal replacement therapies. The average incidence of diabetic nephropathy is 3% p...

Mar 14th, 2023 - Hypertension is a risk factor for many brain pathologies, such as ischemic and hemorrhagic neurodegenerative diseases or stroke. The literature seems to agree on the relationship between hypertension and brain damage, and on the benefit of the man...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Introduction: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disorder associated with poor survival. Endothelial dysfunction resulting from 1) genetic susceptibility, and 2) a triggering stimulus that initiates pulmonary vascular injury, the two-...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Background Endothelial dysfunction is one of the early events in atherosclerotic plaque development. It is characterized by an increased ratio of substances with vasoconstrictive, pro-thrombotic, and proliferative properties over substances with v...

Obesity, hypertension, and high cholesterol are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which accounts for about 20% of deaths in Washington State. For most states, self-reports from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System provide the prim...

Randomized trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) program for lowering blood pressure; however, program participation has been limited in some populations. The objective of this pilot study...

Mar 14th, 2023 - Greater adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet was associated with a significantly reduced risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and improved lung function, based on data from more than 28,000 individua.

Mar 14th, 2023 - A report described the case of a patient with persistent prosopagnosia -- face blindness -- after SARS-CoV-2 infection. (Cortex) Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID patients both had abnormal brainstem volume...

Mar 14th, 2023 - Days of greater local ambient ozone pollution coincided with excess hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease in China. (European Heart Journal) FDA and CDC officials sent a letter to Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, stressing ...