Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "blood pressure"
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Association between Prenatal Lead Exposure and Blood Pressure in Children
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2012)Background: Lead exposure in adults is associated with hypertension. Altered prenatal nutrition is associated with subsequent risks of adult hypertension, but little is known about whether prenatal exposure to toxicants, ... -
Autonomic Effects of Controlled Fine Particulate Exposure in Young Healthy Adults: Effect Modification by Ozone
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)Background: Human controlled-exposure studies have assessed the impact of ambient fine particulate matter on cardiac autonomic function measured by heart rate variability (HRV), but whether these effects are modified by ... -
Black Carbon Exposure, Oxidative Stress Genes, and Blood Pressure in a Repeated-measures Study
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)Background: Particulate matter (PM) air pollution has been associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and elevated blood pressure (BP) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. A small number of studies ... -
Black Carbon Exposures, Blood Pressure, and Interactions with Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in MicroRNA Processing Genes
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010)Background: Black carbon (BC) is a marker of traffic pollution that has been associated with blood pressure (BP), but findings have been inconsistent. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are emerging as key regulators of gene expression, ... -
DNA Hypomethylation, Ambient Particulate Matter, and Increased Blood Pressure: Findings From Controlled Human Exposure Experiments
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)Background: Short‐term exposures to fine (<2.5 μm aerodynamic diameter) ambient particulate‐matter (PM) have been related with increased blood pressure (BP) in controlled‐human exposure and community‐based studies. However, ... -
The effect of Chinese herbal medicine Jian Ling Decoction for the treatment of essential hypertension: a systematic review
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)Objectives: Jian Ling Decoction (JLD) is often prescribed to improve hypertension-related symptoms in China. However, this treatment has not been systematically reviewed for its efficacy against essential hypertension (EH). ... -
Effect on Blood Pressure of Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium in Women With Low Habitual Intake
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1998)In populations, dietary intakes of potassium, calcium, and magnesium each have been inversely associated with blood pressure. However, most clinical trials in normotensive populations have not found that dietary supplements ... -
Gender-specific hypertension and responsiveness to nitric oxide in sGCa1 knockout mice
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2008)Aim: The effects of nitric oxide (NO) in the cardiovascular system are attributed in part to cGMP synthesis by the α1β1 isoform of soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC). Because available sGC inhibitors are neither enzyme- nor ... -
Integrative network analysis reveals molecular mechanisms of blood pressure regulation
(BlackWell Publishing Ltd, 2015)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous loci associated with blood pressure (BP). The molecular mechanisms underlying BP regulation, however, remain unclear. We investigated BP-associated molecular ... -
Mechanisms of Inhaled Fine Particulate Air Pollution–induced Arterial Blood Pressure Changes
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2008)Background: Epidemiologic studies suggest a positive association between fine particulate matter and arterial blood pressure, but the results have been inconsistent. Objectives: We investigated the effect of ambient particles ... -
Neurobehavioral Deficits and Increased Blood Pressure in School-Age Children Prenatally Exposed to Pesticides
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010)Background: The long-term neurotoxicity risks caused by prenatal exposures to pesticides are unclear, but a previous pilot study of Ecuadorian school children suggested that blood pressure and visuospatial processing may ... -
Neuropeptide Y Promoter Polymorphism Modifies Effects of a Weight-Loss Diet on 2-Year Changes of Blood Pressure: The Preventing Overweight Using Novel Dietary Strategies Trial
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012)Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is implicated in the regulation of blood pressure (BP), and NPY pathways in the hypothalamus are sensitive to dietary fat. We evaluated the potential effect of a functional variant rs16147 located in ... -
New insights into the effects on blood pressure of diets low in salt and high in fruits and vegetables and low-fat dairy products
(Springer Nature, 2001)Results from the recent Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-Sodium trial provide the latest evidence concerning the effects of dietary patterns and sodium intake on blood pressure. Participants ate either the ... -
Obesity & Hypertension are Determinants of Poor Hemodynamic Control during Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Review
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Proper blood pressure control during surgical procedures such as total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is considered critical to good outcome. There is poor understanding of the pre-operative risk factors for poor ... -
Opposing Effects of Particle Pollution, Ozone, and Ambient Temperature on Arterial Blood Pressure
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2012)Background: Diabetes increases the risk of hypertension and orthostatic hypotension and raises the risk of cardiovascular death during heat waves and high pollution episodes. Objective: We examined whether short-term ... -
Plasma Inflammatory Markers and the Risk of Developing Hypertension in Men
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015)Background: Several cross-sectional, but few prospective, studies suggest that inflammation may be involved in the development of hypertension. We examined markers of inflammation—high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, ... -
Postural Changes in Blood Pressure Associated with Interactions between Candidate Genes for Chronic Respiratory Diseases and Exposure to Particulate Matter
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)Background: Fine particulate matter [aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μm (PM2.5)] has been associated with autonomic dysregulation.Objective We hypothesized that PM2.5 influences postural changes in systolic blood pressure (ΔSBP) ... -
Statin utilisation in a real‐world setting: a retrospective analysis in relation to arterial and cardiovascular autonomic function
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016)Abstract Randomized trials suggest that statin treatment may lower blood pressure and influence cardiovascular autonomic function (CVAF), but the impact of duration of usage, discontinuation, and adherence to this therapy ... -
Stress as a Potential Modifier of the Impact of Lead Levels on Blood Pressure: The Normative Aging Study
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2007)Background: Lead exposure and psychological stress have been independently associated with hypertension in various populations, and animal studies suggest that when they co-occur, their effects may be exacerbated. Objectives: ... -
Submaximal Exercise Systolic Blood Pressure and Heart Rate at 20 Years of Follow‐up: Correlates in the Framingham Heart Study
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016)Background: Beyond their resting values, exercise responses in blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) may add prognostic information for cardiovascular disease (CVD). In cross‐sectional studies, exercise BP and HR responses ...