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How High Blood Pressure Affects Your Heart and What You Can Do About It

MIBHS

Secondary hypertension : This type results from an underlying condition such as kidney disease, hormonal disorders, or the use of certain medications. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) : High blood pressure accelerates the development of CAD by promoting the buildup of plaques in the coronary arteries.

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Why the sudden shock after a few days of malaise?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A VSR is more likely to occur in patients who are older, female, hypertensive, have chronic kidney disease, and have no prior history of smoking. It commonly occurs in the setting of a first myocardial infarction (MI) in the background of delayed or absent reperfusion therapy.

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

DAIC

mg experienced a 23% lower incidence of death from cardiovascular causes, resuscitated cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, stroke, or urgent hospitalization for angina leading to coronary revascularization in a time-to-event analysis. 35 Overall, the magnitudes of benefit seen from colchicine, 0.5 12 Importantly, colchicine, 0.5

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Association between asthma and cardiovascular disease: evidence from the national health and nutrition examination survey 1999–2018

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

CVD included stroke, congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, and angina. Asthma also increased the prevalence of angina in females, non-Hispanic Blacks, participants aged 4559 years old, with a BMI30.00kg/m2, and with a PIR<1.00.

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The nonlinear relationship between estimated glomerular filtration rate and cardiovascular disease in US adults: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2007–2018

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

The eGFR estimates were calculated using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation. CVD was defined as a self-reported physician's diagnosis of congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, or stroke. ml/min/1.73 m².

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Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Mechanical complications such as free wall rupture, VSR and papillary muscle rupture is more likely to occur in patients who are older, female, hypertensive, have chronic kidney disease, and have no prior history of smoking.