Archive for the 'Hypertension' Category

Does anyone have Pseudo Tumor Cerebri / Intracranial Hypertension ?

I was wondering if anyone else had been diagnosed with pseudo tumor cerebri / intracranial hypertension? And how it’s affected your weight loss? Or, if after losing weight it got better ? (as all the doctor’s seem to insist) …
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Treatment of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension

This article covers the basics of the rare lung disease Primary Pulmonary Hypertension. In addition, treatment methods are covered, including various drug therapies and lung transplant surgeries. Treatment of Primary Pulmonary …
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Still Smoking with Hypertension?

Ways to quit smoking and what to do if you haven’t.
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get back in track… i listen to this song… We’ll do it all Everything On our own We don’t need Anything Or anyone If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world? I don’t quite know How to say …
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Hypertension In Teens May Be Caused By Poor Sleep

US researchers reported that teenagers who did not get the required amount of sleep are at a substantially increased risk for pre-hypertension and high blood pressure. Reported in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, …
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Pregnancy Induced Hypertension

Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure. If you are diagnosed with hypertension, it means that your blood pressure is too high and is putting too much pressure on the artery walls as it travels through the body. …
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Prehypertension and Hypertension in Adolescents

Hypertension often goes undiagnosed in children (JW Pediatr Adolesc Med Aug 29 2007). An important question is the extent to which sporadically elevated blood pressure (BP) persists in adolescents. In this study, investigators examined …
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[Scientific Contribution] Characterization and Functional Analyses

Missense variants have already been tested functionally and are associated with hypertension, but no data on promoter analyses are yet available. We scanned 94 hypertensive white subjects for genetic variation and performed promoter …
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Study: Lack Of Sleep Linked To Pre-Hypertension In Teenagers

Teenagers who don’t get enough good-quality sleep are at an increased risk for prehypertension or elevated blood pressure, researchers say. Study author Dr. Susan Redline, director of the University Hospitals Sleep Center at Case …
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[Hypertension] Smoothelin-B Deficiency Results in Reduced Arterial

… smoothelins as key determinants of arterial smooth muscle contractility and cardiovascular performance. Studies on mutations in the Smtn gene or alterations in smoothelin levels in connection to hypertension in humans are warranted.
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