Selected Abstracts
Hypertension
Heart in hypertension
h 
Reversible pulmonary edema due to bilateral renal artery
stenosis
h
Determinants of left ventricular structure after kidney
transplantation
h
Time course of complete regression of left ventricular hypertrophy
during long-term anti-hypertensive therapy with ACE-inhibitors
h
Dobutamine stress echocardiography for detection of coronary artery
disease in hypertensive patients
h
Prognostic value of serial changes in left ventricular mass in
essential hypertension
Genetics
h
Relation between deletion polymorphism of the ACE gene and left
ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive treated men
Kidney in hypertension
h
Which urinary proteins are decreased after ACE inhibition?
Sleep, sleep apnea
h
Hypertension and nocturnal hypoxemia in chronic renal failure
Sympathetic nervous system
h
Effect of 4 weeks of amlodipine therapy on muscle sympathetic nerve
activity
Ambulatory monitoring
h
Values of 1,2,3 hour segments or ambulatory blood pressure
pattern in essential hypertension
h
Nondipper hypertensive patients and ambulatory blood pressure
reproducibility
h
The temporal stability (correlation) of mean awake and sleep
ambulatory blood pressure
Arm cuff
h
Blood pressure determination using the random zero and standard
mercury sphygmomanometers
Tests for LVH
h
Are the sensitivity and specificity of ECG criteria for LVH so bad?
White coat hypertension
h
15-year development of stable hypertension in borderline
hypertension with abnormal pressor response to mental stress
h
Target organ damage in subjects with white-coat and sustained
hypertension: an insight from the HARVEST study
Role of exercise
h
Walking exercise reduces blood pressure in mild essential hypertension
Outcomes
h
Treatment with calcium channel blockers does not increase the risk of
fatal and non-fatal cancer in an elderly European population: STEPHY
II results
Endocrine hypertension
h
Normokalemic primary aldosteronism
h
Hemodynamics effects of correction of hyperparathyroidism by
vitamin D in hemodialysis patients
Obesity, Insulin Resistance
h
Changes in sympathetic activity and insulin sensitivity during
body weight reduction in obese subjects
h
Effects of weight loss intervention in HOT weight loss substudy
participants
Renovascular hypertension
h
Detection of severe bilateral renovascular disease by ACE-induced
renal dysfunction
Smoking, ethanol, substance abuse
h
Chronic alcohol intake rises blood pressure in normotensive and
essential hypertensive patients: assessment by 24-h ABPM
h
The effect of smoking on left ventricular structure and
function in hypertensive patients
h
Effect of alcohol on ambulatory blood pressure and target
organs in subjects with mild hypertension
Women
h
Safety aspects of calcium channel blockers in patients with
hypertension associated with pregnancy: A retrospective study
h
Influence of oral contraceptive pill on ambulatory blood
pressure in normotensive women
h
Effect of menopause on clinic and ambulatory blood pressure
h
Gender differences in insulin sensitivity and sympathetic
responsiveness in young hypertensives
h
Antihypertensive medications and cardiovascular disease in a large
cohort of U.S. women
h
Estrogen replacement therapy improves renal vascular response to L-
arginine in menopausal women with essential hypertension
h
Effect of menopause on day-night blood pressure changes and
left ventricular function in hypertension
h
Ambulatory blood pressures, not office blood pressure, decline during
estrogen replacement therapy in postmenopausal women
ACE inhibitors
h
Early treatment with lisinopril after acute myocardial infarction: Are
risks greter than benefits in hypertensives? Results of the GISSI-3 database
h
A history of arterial hypertension increases benefit of ACE inhibition
after acute myocardial infarction
h
Life span extension of genetically hypertensive rats after long-term
ACE-inhibition correlates to enhanced NO-availability
h
The angiotensin type II receptor may partly be involved in
antihypertensive effects exerted by type I receptor antagonists in
hypertensive rat
h
Greater hypotension during renin than ACE-inhibition associated with
decresed plasma AI but not AII
Acute hypertensive crisis
h
Emergency department management of hypertensive emergencies: A
comparison of fenoldopam mesylate (Corlopam) versus sodium
nitroprusside
Calcium channel blockers
h
Calcium antagonists and sympathetic activity
h
A double-blind trial comparing mibefradil and amlodipine: long-acting
calcium antagonists with similar efficacy but different tolerability profiles
Compliance
h
Appropriate antihypertensive therapy in current practice. Results of a
feasibility study
h
Compliance as a function of initial choice of antihypertensive drug
Cost-effectiveness
h
Outcome of a mandatory formulary conversion of nifedipine XL to
felodipine in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Dietary/electrolyte therapy
h
Magnesium supplementation increases blood pressure in spontaneously
hypertensive rats
h
Dietary potassium is more determining of salt-sensitivity in
normotensive blacks than whites
h
Effects of a low-potassium diet on blood pressure and salt
excretion in black and white subjects
h
The influence of potassium intake on dipper vs. non-dipper blood
pressure status in adolescents
Dialysis, Chronic Renal Failure
Cardiovascular/Hypertension
d
Plasma homocysteine, endothelin, and left ventricular
hypertrophy in patients with end-stage renal disease
d
Myths and reality of hypertension in peritoneal dialysis: results of a
multicenter study
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