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Aortic Stiffness, Blood Pressure Progression, and Incident Hypertension...

ContextVascular stiffness increases with advancing age and is a major risk factor for age-related morbidity and mortality. Vascular stiffness and blood pressure pulsatility are related; however,...

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Atherogenic Vascular Stiffness and Hypertension Cause or Effect? Atherogenic...

Hypertension is a common clinical condition that affects more than 73 million adults (approximately 1 in 3) in the United States; the lifetime risk of developing hypertension has been estimated to be...

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Clinicians Remain Reluctant to Allow Negative Findings to Influence Practice

Results from a recent review of randomized controlled trials suggest that medically treating mild hypertension in individuals with no previous cardiovascular events or cardiovascular disease does not...

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QuickStats: FROM THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS Prevalence of...

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Associations Between Conventional Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Risk of...

ContextPrevious studies have examined the associations of individual clinical risk factors with risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD), but the combined effects of these risk factors are largely...

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Improving the Health of Patients and Populations Requires Humility,...

In 2003 Smith and Pell published a witty systematic review of parachute use to prevent death and major trauma. They did not find any randomized comparisons of using vs not using a parachute when...

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Preventing and Controlling Hypertension in the Era of Genomic Innovation and...

A mere 53 years passed between the publication of Crick and Watson’s “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” and Gregory and colleagues’ “The DNA Sequence and...

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Consumer Group Asks FDA to Warn Patients About Hypertension Combination Therapy

The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has charged the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with failing to warn patients of the dangers of using combination therapies involving 3 drug classes for...

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Heart Failure Therapy What Should Clinicians Believe? Heart Failure Therapy

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Preventing and Controlling Hypertension in the Era of Genomic Innovation and...

A mere 53 years passed between the publication of Crick and Watson’s “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” and Gregory and colleagues’ “The DNA Sequence and...

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Treatment of Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis Time for a New Approach...

Despite substantial improvement in imaging techniques over the past decade, clinicians have become increasingly reluctant to search for renal artery stenosis in patients with hypertension. A reason for...

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Any Hypertension During Pregnancy Raises Risk for Several Chronic Diseases

Clinicians routinely watch for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia in pregnancy, common complications that can harm both mother and child. Yet isolated incidents of increased blood pressure in a...

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Improving Cardiovascular Health A Balance Between Discovery and Delivery

The past 30 years have seen major shifts in cardiovascular science and medicine. In the United States, mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) has declined by more than 60% as a result of new...

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Hypertension Increasing Among US Adults

The prevalence of US adults with hypertension as well as those who take antihypertensive medication has increased in recent years, according to telephone surveys carried out by state health departments...

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Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Intensive Medical Management for the Control of...

ImportanceControlling glycemia, blood pressure, and cholesterol is important for patients with diabetes. How best to achieve this goal is unknown.ObjectiveTo compare Roux-en-Y gastric bypass with...

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Encouraging Patients to Ask Questions How to Overcome “White-Coat Silence”...

The focus of an ongoing effort in health care quality improvement is to encourage patients to ask questions during their care. In September 2011, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)...

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Talking to Patients in the 21st Century Talking to Patients in the 21st Century

Styles of parenting and practicing medicine have followed remarkably similar trajectories over the last half-century, with authoritarian tones firmly banished from both arenas, and the old phrases of...

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Effect of Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring and Pharmacist Management on...

ImportanceOnly about half of patients with high blood pressure (BP) in the United States have their BP controlled. Practical, robust, and sustainable models are needed to improve BP control in patients...

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Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Take It to the Bank Home Blood Pressure...

Forty years ago, to deposit a check, transfer funds, or get cash, a person had to visit a local bank—during weekday business hours—and meet face-to-face with a teller. Today, with Internet banking and...

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