Sentences with phrase «of hypertensive patients»

(1) The majority of hypertensive patients are treated with blood pressure - lowering medications, but is a prescription the best course of action?

The retina of a hypertensive patient develops tortuous looking retinal blood vessels.

Not exact matches

Murray Esler of the Baker IDI Institute in Melbourne, Australia, a member of the team that has been trialling the procedure, says these nerves «are really switched on» in hypertensive patients.

A total of 55,320 hypertensive patients underwent noncardiac surgery in Denmark between 2005 and 2011; baseline clinical characteristics were similar between the 14,644 patients treated with β - blockers and the 40,676 patients treated with other antihypertensive drugs.

«Although evidence - based and qualified guidelines have been recently released from Europe and North America, the unique features of Asian hypertensive patients raise concerns on the real clinical applicability of these guidelines to Asian populations,» write the authors.

For example, failure to intensify therapy in hypertensive patients with blood pressure greater than 140/90 has been reported to be as high as 86.9 % of visits.

The three - year study was conducted in 1,078 hypertensive patients, of whom 85 % also had coronary heart disease and 15 % also had valve disease.

In patients with essential hypertension, elevated ratios may also be a sign of primary aldosteronism (PA), for which recent reports suggest incidence may be as high as 10 - 15 % in hypertensive patients.

Such patients are often mis - placed on anti-hypertensive medications, which do not prevent progression of the hypertensive vascular complications induced by hyperaldosteronemia (i.e., heart attack, stroke, kidney failure).

Prevalence of primary aldosteronism: should we screen for primary aldosteronism before treating hypertensive patients with medication?.

Nishikawa T, Saito J, Omura M. Prevalence of primary aldosteronism: should we screen for primary aldosteronism before treating hypertensive patients with medication?.

Another study showed that Korean subjects who were told to eat their usual Korean traditional diet — rich in kimchi — had lower glycated hemoglobin (HbA ₁ c), and more evidence of lower glucose.4 Jung, S. J., et al. «Beneficial effects of Korean traditional diets in hypertensive and type 2 diabetic patients.»

There have been postmarketing reports of patients who experienced significantly elevated blood pressure (including rare cases of hypertensive crisis) after ingestion of unknown amounts of tyramine - rich foods while taking recommended doses of AZILECT.

A study a number years ago showed that labeling patients as hypertensive compared to a control group with the same blood pressures lowered their quality of life and increased the days of work missed.

Subjects with renal insufficiency, even subclinical, kidney transplant patients and people with metabolic syndrome or other obesity - related conditions, will be more susceptible to the hypertensive effect of amino acids, especially of the sulphated variety.104 The well - documented correlation between obesity and reduced nephron quantity on raised blood pressure puts subjects with T2D or metabolic syndrome at risk, even if in diabetics with kidney damage the effects are not always consistent with the hypothesis.12, 105,106 In fact, although some authors have reported a positive influence of a reduction in protein intake from 1.2 to 0.9 g / kg, over the short term, on albuminuria in T2D, 107 the same authors have subsequently stated instead that dietary protein restriction is neither necessary nor useful over the long term.108

A study published in the September 2007 issue of «Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine,» reported that sesame oil consumption on a regular basis lowered blood pressure, decreased the oxidative degradation of fats and increased antioxidant levels in hypertensive patients.

Sustained hypertension is associated with damage to the eyes, ears, brain, and kidneys.6, 7 A hypertensive emergency occurs when the patient has a marked elevation of blood pressure and is at risk for development of end - organ damage or vascular incidents, such as cerebral hemorrhage causing neurologic signs or intraocular hemorrhage causing blindness.7

Development of the Japanese Medication Adherence Scale and Verification of Its Reliability and Validity in Hypertensive Patients

This is similar with the studies with hypertensive patients in France and Turkey [20][32] and on osteoporosis patients in USA [26] and the original validation study of Morisky et al. [21].

It is suggested that forgiveness training may be an effective clinical intervention for some hypertensive patients with elevated levels of anger.