Blood pressure circadian rhythm and endothelial function in heavy smokers: acute effects of transdermal nicotine [0.03%]
Juan Carlos Yugar-Toledo,Silvia Elaine Ferreira-Melo,Maricene Sabha et al.
Juan Carlos Yugar-Toledo et al.
Nicotine replacement therapy appears to be safe when used by healthy patients to aid in smoking cessation; however, the immediate acute effects of nicotine replacement therapy on the circadian rhythm of blood pressure (BP) and endothelial f...
Norman K Hollenberg,Erin Mohres,Terri Meinking et al.
Norman K Hollenberg et al.
Is migration from isolated indigenous island communities to Panama City associated with an increase in stress? Individuals were randomly sampled from two Kuna communities: 325 individuals in Panama City and 133 on a Caribbean island. Stress...
Ammar Jesri,Eni C Okonofua,Brent M Egan
Ammar Jesri
Platelet and white blood cell counts are higher among some insulin-resistant patients and may contribute to atherothromboembolic complications. Metabolic syndrome patients are insulin resistant, often hypertensive, and at high cardiovascula...
Thomas G Pickering
Thomas G Pickering
Karl Engelman
Karl Engelman
Thomas G Pickering
Thomas G Pickering
Domenic A Sica
Domenic A Sica
Angiotensin receptor blockers are one of several drug classes that act by interfering with activity of the renin-angiotensin axis. Drugs in this class are as effective as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in the reduction of blood pr...
Keith C Ferdinand
Keith C Ferdinand
Thomas D Giles,Gary E Sander
Thomas D Giles
The metabolic syndrome, characterized by increases in waist circumference, blood pressure, and triglyceride concentrations combined with reduced high-density lipoprotein and evidence of glucose intolerance, results from the interaction of v...
Systemic hypertension among women with uterine leiomyomata: potential final common pathways of target end-organ remodeling [0.03%]
Marc A Silver,Rashmi Raghuvir,Bohdan Fedirko et al.
Marc A Silver et al.
The uterus and the heart share a common structure and may remodel in a similar fashion, albeit temporally distinct. The authors investigated the prevalence of systemic hypertension in women with uterine leiomyomata (fibroids) and compared t...