Sentences with phrase «hypertension at»

She should be assessed for sleep apnea or another secondary cause of high blood pressure such as renal artery stenosis, as it is unusual to have that degree of new onset hypertension at that age.

Not one of them had hypertension at the beginning of the research.

Exercise, stress elimination, and a healthy diet will go a long way toward preventing hypertension at any age.

The following is an excerpt from an interview in Regenerative Medicine Network, an online publication, with Hermann Haller, M.D., a faculty member at the MDI Biological Laboratory and director of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at Hannover Medical School in Hanover, Germany.

He has been the director of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at Hannover Medical School in Hanover, Germany, since 1999, where he has established an internationally renowned clinic for renal disease and hypertension.

Renal outcomes with different fixed - dose combination therapies in patients with hypertension at high risk for cardiovascular events (ACCOMPLISH): a prespecified secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.

«This work shows us how a genetic mutation causes a severe form of glaucoma called primary congenital glaucoma, which afflicts a significant portion of children enrolled in institutions for the blind worldwide,» said principal investigator Dr. Susan Quaggin, chief of nephrology and hypertension at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

It was social media that first connected Weinberg with her now M4S co-chairs, Jonathan Berman, a postdoctoral fellow researching hypertension at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio; and Valorie Aquino, an anthropology Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Jerry Yee, M.D., division head of Nephrology and Hypertension at Henry Ford and the study's senior author, says the findings suggest the antibiotic therapy is a potential game - changer for hemodialysis treatment.

«In our study, it did not matter whether their sodium levels were high at the beginning of the study or if they were low to begin with, then gradually increased over the years — both groups were at greater risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Tomonori Sugiura, M.D., Ph.D. the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the Department of Cardio - Renal Medicine and Hypertension at the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in, Nagoya, Japan.

In a separate analysis, the researchers examined the association of fruit consumption with total mortality and CV mortality in more than 61,000 patients from the China Kadoorie Biobank who had CVD or hypertension at baseline.

Among patients with hypertension at high risk of cardiovascular disease, a program that consisted of patients measuring their blood pressure and adjusting their antihypertensive medication accordingly resulted in lower systolic blood pressure at 12 months compared to patients who received usual care, according to a study in the August 27 issue of JAMA.

«Developing hypertension at older ages may be beneficial for maintaining intact cognition through mechanisms related to cerebral perfusion or to vascular or other pathologies.

In the studio today for Medical Monday is Dr. Arif Asif, chief of nephrology and hypertension at Albany Medical Center.

However, age modified the relationship (P = 0.02): breastfeeding was associated with reduced risk of hypertension at ages 40 - 49 (Odds ratio 0.92, 95 % CI: 0.85, 0.99) but not older ages.

Not exact matches

«We don't have a specific list of conditions that would be disqualifying, but certainly uncontrolled medical problems (whether it's hypertension or heart disease or lung disease, or many other conditions), would most likely cause concern and result in disqualification,» Dr. Tarah Castleberry, an assistant professor of aerospace medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, told Reuters Health by email.

Dr. Chawla joined La Jolla Pharmaceuticals in 2015, and previously was a Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University, where he had dual appointments in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and in the Department of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension.

United Therapeutics will pay $ 4.46 per share in cash at closing yesterday and an additional $ 2.63 per share in cash upon the achievement of a milestone related to the commercialization of SteadyMed's leading drug candidate Trevyent for the treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH).

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.

Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, HIV / AIDS — all these occur at higher rates among Black women.

Grant N. Pierce, PhD, Executive Director of Research at St Boniface Hospital in Canada, discusses an alternative or complementary treatment to medication for hypertension.

Drinking four or more cups of Kona per day does not affect the risk of hypertension compared to drinking little or no Kona; however, drinking 1 — 3 cups per day may be at a slightly increased risk.

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I had tests about six months before I got pregnant, again when I got pregnant, again after three months and then at 6 months and then I got into hypertension categories and was getting weekly blood tests.

After a very difficult pregnancy, including pregnancy - induced hypertension (landing me in the ER twice and putting me on 3x the normal dose of BP meds starting at eight weeks), kidney stones, and morning sickness for 23 weeks, I was happy to have made it to 40 weeks with no serious complications.

We estimated the variability of differences in the population prevalence of maternal cancers, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, MI, and premature mortality when women breastfed at current compared with optimal rates and the proportion of current disease burden that this change would reflect.

Women who are experiencing high - risk pregnancies (such as those who have preeclampsia or hypertension) may also wish to check their baby's heart rate at home, in order to help monitor their pregnancies better.

Who provides care: lay health workers for caring for people with hypertension, lay health workers to deliver care for mothers and children or infectious diseases, lay health workers to deliver community - based neonatal care packages, midlevel health professionals for abortion care, social support to pregnant women at risk, midwife - led care for childbearing women, non-specialist providers in mental health and neurology, and physician - nurse substitution.

Filipina women had the highest risk of gestational hypertension / preeclampsia (adjusted odds ratio, 2.21); Indian / Pakistani women had the highest risk of preterm delivery (adjusted odds ratio, 1.67), gestational diabetes mellitus (adjusted odds ratio, 1.39), and low birthweight at term (adjusted odds ratio, 2.30); and Pacific Islander women had the highest risk of macrosomia (adjusted odds ratio, 3.67).

Furthermore, a child who is obese by age 12 has more than a 75 percent chance of becoming an obese adult, at risk for Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, hypertension, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, asthma and certain cancers.

The Division of Pediatric Nephrology at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston provides consultations for children who are being treated for elevated blood pressure and hypertension.

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(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

Are at a 62 % increased risk of developing diabetes, independent of factors such as weight, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

Are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and associated factors, such as heart attacks and hypertension.

The first phase of the trial was conducted in 1998 - 2002 and included 10,180 patients aged 40 - 79 with hypertension and at least three other cardiovascular risk factors from the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

Ophthalmologists at 10 sites nationwide tested the ring in a phase 2 clinical trial on patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

In an effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D., research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues used data from the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose results were first published in 1997.

«We're worrying about pre-term labor, obesity and hypertension,» said Dr. Jeanne A. Conry, an ob / gyn at Kaiser Permanente in Roseville, Calif., and incoming president of a national medical society.

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.

High PCBs levels also have put the residents at risk for high - blood pressure and hypertension, autoimmune diseases and thyroid disorders, according to the Anniston Community Health Survey.

of the University of California, Irvine and colleagues investigated the relationship between risk of dementia, age of the onset of hypertension, and blood pressure measurements in the oldest old, and reported the results at AAIC 2014.

In addition to the dangers posed to fetal development, unregulated amounts of nanoparticles in the environment are now known to affect us at the cellular level, and the genetic consequences could be at the root of the greatest public health crises, including heart disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes.

Similar results were seen for participants with vitamin D deficiency at study entry and for other outcomes such as heart attack, angina, heart failure, hypertension, and stroke.

Looking at the data, it's clear that most people who are insulin resistant don't get diabetes but are greatly at risk for coronary heart disease, hypertension, non-alcoholic-type liver disease, polycystic ovary syndrome, and several kinds of cancer.»

The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, analyzed biannual responses from 13,897 participants in the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study who were 54 or older and had at least one of the following chronic conditions: hypertension, diabetes, cancer, lung disease, heart disease or stroke.

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.»

In science news around the world, the European Commission proposes that the European Union consider funding military research, more investigations at Japanese universities cast doubts on claims for a leading hypertension drug, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials plan a culling of barred owls in the Pacific Northwest in hopes of saving the endangered northern spotted owl, and more.