Sentences with phrase «resistant hypertension»

Poor sleep is yet another oft - ignored factor that can cause resistant hypertension.

According to a study published in Hypertension, 50 patients with resistant hypertension (defined as high blood pressure that doesn't respond to taking three or more types of medication designed to lower blood pressure) who walked on a treadmill at a 3 percent grade three times a week for eight weeks were able to lower their systolic blood pressure (the number on the top of a blood - pressure reading) by 6 mm Hg (a measure of pressure).

Taking our results together we can conclude that RDN is an effective procedure for treating resistant hypertension but success depends on careful selection and completeness of ablation.»

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.»

Now, researchers report in the American Journal of Physiology — Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology that renal denervation — a procedure that disrupts the nerves in the kidneys and prevents them from relaying signals — can treat hypertension, including resistant hypertension, when the nerves are completely blocked.

Renal denervation seems to be more successful at reducing blood pressure in patients with resistant hypertension when it includes accessory renal arteries, according to research recently presented at ESC Congress by Dr Linda Schmiedel from Germany.

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

«Renal denervation shows no benefit in resistant hypertension.»

(1) Resistant hypertension (rHTN) is defined as office blood pressure greater than 160/90 mmHg, systolic ambulatory blood pressure greater than 135 mmHg and failure to respond to more than 3 appropriate drugs at the highest tolerated doses including diuretics.

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.

This pivotal trial is the largest study conducted of renal artery denervation as a treatment for resistant hypertension and the most rigorously designed, including blinding and a sham treatment in the control arm.

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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 mutation found in the cattle renders the protein resistant to degradation, resulting in excessive pulmonary hypertension.

Essential hypertension: an insulin - resistant state.

This causes insulin resistant diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

Untrained in medical nutrition, hospital accountants may not understand that fast food causes obesity, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistant diabetes, hypertension and accelerated cardiovascular disease.