Sentences with phrase «because hypertension»

It is imperative that you monitor your blood pressure because hypertension can have an extremely negative impact on your kidney health.

Because hypertension can lead to complications (low weight babies, kidney problems, premature birth, and preeclampsia) you should take steps to reduce high blood pressure during pregnancy.

It's important to go to all of your prenatal appointments because hypertension can get significantly worse during pregnancy and cause serious problems for you and your baby.

Not exact matches

Rather, she was there because she had lain awake the night before, grief - stricken at the prospect of losing her two - and - a-half-year-old son, who had just been diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension.

Because the food we consume directly impacts our health, it is important to note that an infant who develops a «taste» for salty, sweet and fatty foods over fruits and vegetables will have a greater risk for diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and some cancers according to Mennella's and Beauchamp's Flavor Perception in Human Infants article.

One company, Young Living, recently received a warning from the FDA because their paid consultants were promoting «Young Living Essential Oil Products for conditions such as, but not limited to, viral infections (including E bola), Parkinson's disease, autism, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, insomnia, heart disease, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dementia, and multiple sclerosis,» even though «there are no FDA - approved applications for these products.»

More broadly, updated longitudinal studies of the natural history of hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are needed, because the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey that we used in our model are somewhat dated.

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

Others may need to have premature labour induced because of fetal growth restriction, hypertension in the mother, or a condition called placental abruption where the placenta comes away from the walls of the uterus.

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

Breech Twins and higher order multiples Previous CS Pre-Eclampsia Placenta praevia Cervical incompetence Previous late stillbirth Previous premature birth Grand multiparty Age under 18 Age over 35 Smoking Drug use Severe mental health issue Epilepsy Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Gestational diabetes Asthma GBS positive Abnormal antibodies Transplant recipient Congenital heart disease Known foetal abnormality Immunosuppressive medication MS Physical disability Intellectual disability Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Previous shoulder dystocia Previous 3rd or 4th degree tear Sickle Cell anaemia BMI under 18 or over 35 at conception Previous massive PPH APH in current pregnancy HIV / AIDS Hepatitis B or C Active TB IUGR Oligohydramnios Polyhydramnios Child previously removed from custody because of abuse Uterine abnormalities such as uterine septum or double uterus Previous uterine surgery for fibroids Chronic renal problems Hypertension Auto immune condition Previous stroke or blod clot Cancer Domestic violence or abusive home Prisoners Homeless women

(borrowed from Dr Kitty) Breech Twins and higher order multiples Previous CS Pre-Eclampsia Placenta praevia Cervical incompetence Previous late stillbirth Previous premature birth Grand multiparty Age under 18 Age over 35 Smoking Drug use Severe mental health issue Epilepsy Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Gestational diabetes Asthma GBS positive Abnormal antibodies Transplant recipient Congenital heart disease Known foetal abnormality Immunosuppressive medication MS Physical disability Intellectual disability Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Previous shoulder dystocia Previous 3rd or 4th degree tear Sickle Cell anaemia BMI under 18 or over 35 at conception Previous massive PPH APH in current pregnancy HIV / AIDS Hepatitis B or C Active TB IUGR Oligohydramnios Polyhydramnios Child previously removed from custody because of abuse Uterine abnormalities such as uterine septum or double uterus Previous uterine surgery for fibroids Chronic renal problems Hypertension Auto immune condition Previous stroke or blod clot Cancer Domestic violence or abusive home Prisoners Homeless women

I made a quick search for «maternal death rate increase» Everything I found points to the same thing: Maternal death rate increased in the USA because of the increasing rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension and other kind of risk factors (Which raises the risk of pregnancy).

I'll spare you all the details of this, because it's a little in the weeds, but suffice to say there are some who believe full disability pension benefits were being doled out to uniformed workers for things like heart disease and hypertension, under the claim that the stress of the job either caused these ailments, or exacerbated the effects for those who were preconditioned.

«The additional sodium is even more worrisome because the average daily sodium intake among Americans is already so far above the recommended upper limit, posing a significant public health concern, such as hypertension and heart disease,» he said.

That is because «the human kidney is made, by design, to vary the accretion of salt based on the amount you take in,» explains Michael Alderman, an epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and former president of the International Society of Hypertension.

Most of the infants enrolled in the Duke study are delivered by cesarean section, generally because the mother or the child has an infection or because the mother suffers from pregnancy - induced hypertension.

We know this because patients who were given the new - look medication presented higher hypertension and systolic blood pressure than either of their peers whose medication was unchanged or simply wrapped in a different packaging.

Diabetes and hypertension can be held at a safe, manageable level precisely because they are essentially stable diseases.

«Our findings are important because they show that lowering sodium is best targeted at those with hypertension who also consume high sodium diets.»

«Our hypothesis was that there is increased prevalence of cerebral microbleeds in MS because progression of that disease is associated with increased likelihood of cardiovascular comorbidities, including hypertension, altered lipid metabolism, overweight / obesity, smoking and diabetes and migraine, all risk factors for cerebral microbleeds,» he said.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death among homeless people, probably because they have a high rate of traditional risk factors such as smoking or undiagnosed or untreated hypertension, diabetes or high cholesterol, combined with the stress and low socio - economic status associated with homelessness.

This is partly because obesity and other illnesses such as hypertension and elevated cholesterol contribute to both diseases, but there are concerns that some of the medications that help control blood sugar may also damage the heart.

«We've got a unique situation at Vanderbilt because we've got people here who really understand pulmonary hypertension.»

Because of the procedure's complexity, it has been used, until recently, only to help patients whose pulmonary thromboembolic disease causes severe hypertension and has not responded to other therapies.

«Because PGAs are a first line of treatment for glaucoma, these results provide physicians with one reason to reconsider when they should be added in new patients, particularly those where the aim is to prevent glaucoma such as in ocular hypertension patients or glaucoma suspects,» Dr. Pasquale said.

A previous generation of weight loss drugs was linked to this receptor, but because their scope was broader, those products also had dire cardiac side effects including pulmonary hypertension and valve problems.

For example, he says, the racial differences may not be relevant to hypertension, because blood pressure is controlled by arteries, not veins.

High blood pressure during pregnancy is a risk factor for future hypertension and cardiovascular disease, but it's not clear if this increased risk is because these women are more likely to have a family history of heart disease or if elevated blood pressure during pregnancy causes long - term metabolic and vascular abnormalities.

This is worrisome because this condition can progress to hypertension, which in turn can cause heart disease and premature death,» says O'Loughlin, a researcher at the CRCHUM and professor in the School of Public Health, University of Montreal.

These adrenal gland tumors are often benign, but they can become malignant, and in some cases lead to life - threatening hypertension, arrhythmia, and stroke, but it's not clear which tumors will become metastatic because of the disease's rarity and complex biology.

Pulmonary hypertension develops because of abnormal blood vessels in the lungs, which makes it harder for the heart to push blood through and provide oxygen to the rest of the body.

That level of trust and rapport is essential in treating hypertension, because it's a chronic condition that requires ongoing care and lifestyle changes, Victor said.

Also known as hypertension, the condition has been called the silent killer because it often shows no warning symptoms but increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, two leading causes of death.

Researchers said their evidence further strengthens the concept that transportation noise contributes to the development of heart disease risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes because noise is associated with oxidative stress, vascular dysfunction, autonomic imbalance and metabolic abnormalities.

Because it is generally accepted that excess salt intake can lead to or exacerbate hypertension, we speculate that one mechanism predisposing babies to high salt intake is the heightened preferences that are caused by in utero events common to lower birth weight.

Hypertension is called the «silent killer» because its lack of symptoms can often have lethal results for those who go on to experience heart attack or stroke.

None showed signs of diabetes, hypertension, or serious arthritis, the diseases the scientists focused on because they strike aged sheep just as they do elderly humans.

«We are excited about this finding because there are so few treatment options for pulmonary hypertension,» said study author Mardi Gomberg - Maitland, MD, MSc, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago.

Because of the polygenic nature of hypertension, numerous rat models have been developed including selective bred homozygous hypertensive rat strains (e.g. spontaneously hypertensive rat [SHR] and Dahl salt sensitive [Dahl SS]-RRB- and outbred strains (e.g. Sprague Dawley) to elucidate the desired hypertensive phenotype.

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Rat is a key model for cardiovascular disease studies: atherosclerosis, hypertension, stroke models, not only because of its size, but also because of its physiology.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

The reason it is such a huge problem and why I'm telling you about it today is because it's the root cause of diseases like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, hypertension, and cancer.

Although this study was a retrospective analysis of medical records, the results warrant attention because researchers controlled for 12 external causes of early death, such as asthma, coronary disease, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.

Hypertension, or abnormally high blood pressure, is often called the «silent killer» because the condition has no obvious warning signs.

«This is worrisome because this condition can progress to hypertension, which in turn can cause heart disease and premature death,» explained O'Loughlin.

They call hypertension the «silent killer» because it's possible to have dangerously high blood pressure and no symptoms.

Because of this, experts often refer to hypertension as a silent killer disease.

Women over 55 are significantly more likely than men to develop hypertension, perhaps because theyve lost whatever protective effects estrogen might have provided.