Sentences with phrase «of hypertension patients»

Even in the U.S., they note, nearly half of the hypertension patients did not achieve blood pressure levels that meet current guidelines.

A growing number of hypertension patients use mobile - health technologies to track and manage their conditions, the authors write in the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension.

Not exact matches

Patients who enrolled in BCBS individual plans in 2014 and 2015 have higher rates of certain diseases — depression, hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, HIV and hepatitis C — than individuals enrolled in coverage prior to ACA implementation.

Mannkind, which focuses on the development and commercialization of inhaled therapeutic products for patients with diseases such as diabetes and pulmonary arterial hypertension, entered a shallow but persistent downtrend in 2004, posting a series of lower highs into 2015.

Many of my patients with hypertension ask me whether it is safe to take sildenafil (Viagra) with their blood pressure medications...

As for the rest of the unpronounceable ingredients if you'd like to be nauseous, have irritated skin, or consume a chemical listed with «use caution in patients with cardiac failure, hypertension, impaired renal function, peripheral and pulmonary edema, and toxemia of pregnancy» then just go ahead and grab that iced coffee from McDonald's to go (just incase you have to shit, puke, or have a heart attack).

One way out of this dilemma, Daviglus notes, is to design a study in which patients suffering from hypertension get treatment, and doctors analyze the results based on how well the patients» blood pressure was controlled.

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.

This new study shows that the risks associated with low - sodium intake — less than three grams per day — are consistent regardless of a patient's hypertension status.

Risks associated with low - sodium intake — less than three grams per day — are consistent regardless of a patient's hypertension status.

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.

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.

A total of 159 patients (average age 77 years) with isolated systolic hypertension participated in the randomized clinical trial.

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.

Richard J. McManus, F.R.C.G.P., of the University of Oxford, and colleagues randomly assigned 552 patients with hypertension and a history of stroke, coronary heart disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease to self - monitoring of blood pressure combined with an individualized self - titration algorithm or a control group (patients received usual care consisting of seeing their health care clinician for routine blood pressure measurement and adjustment of medication if necessary).

Professor Zhengming Chen, the principal investigator of the China Kadoorie Biobank, said: «Patients with CVD and hypertension should also be encouraged to consume more fresh fruit.

In the case of chronic diseases like hypertension, patients not sticking to their treatment plans is one of the main causes of treatment failure.

Since most of these variables are considered co-morbidities, such as history of heart attack, stent and hypertension, health care providers can easily calculate a patient's frailty score by taking a simple medical history.

The Northwestern study reported patients with eczema had 54 percent higher odds of being morbidly obese, 48 percent higher odds of hypertension, up to 93 percent higher odds of having pre-diabetes and up to 42 percent higher odds of having diabetes.

Ibuprofen is associated with increased blood pressure and hypertension compared to celecoxib in patients with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, according to late - breaking results from the PRECISION - ABPM study presented today in a Hot Line Session at ESC Congress1 and published in EHJ.

«Patients receiving ibuprofen had a 61 % higher incidence of de novo hypertension compared to those receiving celecoxib,» said Professor Ruschitzka.

Maintaining or achieving blood pressure control in patients with arthritis and concomitant hypertension (treated or untreated) could avoid more than 70,000 deaths from stroke and 60,000 deaths from coronary heart disease each year, 2 making it important to investigate the effects of various NSAIDs on blood pressure.

At baseline, patients age 80 and older had a higher prevalence of hypertension, heart disease, osteoporosis and joint problems, but a lower BMI, and a lower prevalence of depression and smoking.

More than half of TKR patients have a body mass index (BMI) within the obesity range (greater than 30 kg / m ²), which has been linked to a higher risk for related comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis; and in some studies, to higher medical costs and longer hospital stays.

Results showed that the egg donation patients had a more than three-fold higher risk of pregnancy - induced hypertension than the routine IVF patients, with prevalence rising from 5.3 % to 17.8 % (odds ratio 3.84, 95 % CI 1.89 - 7.77) and an even higher risk of pre-eclampsia, from 2.8 % to 11.2 % (OR 4.60, 95 % CI 1.81 - 11.67)-- although the latter finding was based on very few numbers.

Our aim was to find out whether pregnancies from egg donation are genuinely associated with a higher risk of hypertension and pre-eclampsia than those from treatments using the patient's own eggs.

The study, which is published today in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension and is supported by Barts Charity, devised a novel treatment strategy for 55 patients, involving fractional dosing with tablets (halving or quartering pills), liquid formulations of antihypertensive drugs and patch formulations of antihypertensive drugs — plus use of unlicensed drugs that lower blood pressure.

Richard Channick, MD, director of the MGH Pulmonary Hypertension Program, says, «This advance has great potential for our patients.

Marc Semigran, MD, medical director of the MGH Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Service adds, «The ability to safely administer inhaled NO chronically to heart failure patients could improve the lives of many of the millions of patients with secondary pulmonary hypertension.»

«Once we've shown that this can safely be used in human patients with pulmonary hypertension — and we've got a clinical trial in progress right now — we'll be able to conduct studies of inhaled NO delivered in ambulatory settings, including patients» homes, to treat chronic pulmonary hypertension, right - sided heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.»

«A few other studies have shown results suggesting an increased risk of pregnancy - induced hypertension in egg donation patients,» said Dr Letur.

«This study illustrates the importance of recognizing and diagnosing pulmonary hypertension so patients can receive proper treatment,» says Richard S. Irwin, MD, Master FCCP, and editor in chief, CHEST.

«Usually patients will come with very nondescript symptoms and an echocardiogram, showing evidence of pulmonary hypertension, is often the first clue that a patient has CTEPH,» Robbins said.

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.

Mads E. Jørgensen, M.B., of Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and coauthors examined in - hospital records and out - of - hospital pharmacotherapy use in Danish patients with uncomplicated hypertension treated with at least two antihypertensive drugs (β - blockers, thiazides, calcium antagonists or renin - angiotensin system [RAS] inhibitors) undergoing noncardiac surgery between 2005 and 2011.

The results support current clinical guidelines on the treatment of hypertension in younger patients with CKD, but a more cautious blood pressure - lowering strategy for very elderly patients with CKD may be reasonable.

Hypertension is the most important treatable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and while it is especially common in the elderly and in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), these are the least studied groups in randomized controlled trials examining the health effects of lowering blood pressure.

«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.

«For now, a tailored application of available data to the constellation of comorbidities and healthcare priorities of a particular patient remains the best approach for individualized hypertension management among older adults with CKD.»

«Over the past five years, an increasing number of patients with symptomatic chronic thromboembolic disease, without severe pulmonary hypertension, are being offered and choosing to undergo the surgery, said lead investigator Daniel Crouch, MD, a third - year pulmonary and critical care fellow at UCSD.

The most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey indicates that a quarter of patients with hypertension were not receiving an antihypertensive medication.

Among the total group of patients, those who took PPIs were less likely to have vascular disease, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but PPI use was linked with a 10 % increased risk of CKD and a 76 % increased risk of dying prematurely.

In 2014, he and his colleagues discovered that these molecules are unusually abundant in certain immune cells of mice with high blood pressure — and that the same is true in patients with hypertension.

«Our study demonstrates that in patients with mild - moderate obesity and type 2 diabetes, gastric bypass surgery leads to a sustained reduction in weight, improvement in glycemic control, and decrease in cardiovascular risk compared to a medical diabetes and weight management program,» said lead author Donald C. Simonson, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D., of the BWH Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension.

At the beginning of the study, mean ambulatory BP was 154 ± 10/85 ± 9 mmHg and patients were taking more than 6 drugs to treat their hypertension.

Bhatt commented on the value of the study's cooperation between interventional and non-interventional blood pressure doctors, which demonstrated that a «good proportion» of patients with resistant hypertension in this study responded to expert medical therapy.

People with severe resistant hypertension — high blood pressure not controlled with three classes of medications — are a very challenging subset of patients.

The Global SYMPLICITY Registry is the first and largest dataset of patients with uncontrolled hypertension treated with renal denervation.

Up to 15 % of patients suffer from resistant hypertension (rHTN) and are unable to reduce BP below 140/90 mmHg despite adhering to full doses of an appropriate three drug treatment regimen including diuretics.»