Medical Xpress - Cardiology

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Overweight and obese women have a higher risk of hypertension and cardiovascular risk factors than women with a standard BMI, according to an analysis of the ANCORS-YW STUDY presented at ACC Middle East 2024. Obesity is a widespread public health challenge in the Middle East, maintaining prevalence in 54.2% of women and 31.4%

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 30, 2024

This study aims to identify risk factors for new-onset HDP and to develop a prediction model for assessing the risk of new-onset hypertension during pregnancy.MethodsWe included 446 pregnant women without baseline hypertension from Liyang People's Hospital at the first inspection, and they were followed up until delivery.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 12, 2024

BackgroundThe association between healthy lifestyle and American Heart Association (AHA) Life's Essential 8 (LE8) score and apparent treatment-resistant hypertension(aTRH)remains uncertain. to 0.20) for uncontrolled hypertension with 12 and 34 antihypertensive drugs, respectively. to 0.76) and 0.07 (95% CI, 0.02

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Additionally, 94 cases of tumor-associated hypertension and 96 cases of primary hypertension were randomly selected for comparison. Compared with the primary hypertension group, the tumor-associated hypertension group exhibited significantly reduced nighttime systolic blood pressure decline rate [(1.10±9.01) 9.01) vs. (6.33±6.87),t=-4.508,P<0.001]

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European Journal of Heart Failure

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy as a risk factor for heart failure. BMI, body mass index; CV, cardiovascular; CVD, cardiovascular disease; HELLP, haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) occur in almost 10% of gestations and preeclampsia, a more severe form, in 34%.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The chi-squared test compared sociodemographic characteristics between HTN stages I and II.Results:Data from 1580 hypertensive participants with blood pressure readings over 130/80 mmHg with or without anti-hypertensive treatment was analyzed. Median BMI was 27.6 HTN stage was defined according to AHA’s 2018 guidelines.

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Hypertension Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hypertension, Volume 80, Issue 12 , Page 2581-2590, December 1, 2023. BACKGROUND:This study aimed to develop a risk-scoring model for hypertension among Africans.METHODS:In this study, 4413 stroke-free controls were used to develop the risk-scoring model for hypertension. for the training set and 64.6% (95% CI, 61.0–68.0)

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Introduction:The demographics of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is shifting towards older age, increased comorbidity burden, and an increase in the risk of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction. Results:Overall, 140 participants were identified (age: 56±16 years; BMI: 30.04±8.04 However, E/A ratio (HR:0.49(0.26-0.92),

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Pulmonary Hypertension Preserved Ejection Fraction Outcomes 40

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Background Worldwide obesity has a high prevalence, as well as carries a high risk of several chronic diseases, including hypertension. Studies of the association between obesity and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) are scarce and most use only body mass index (BMI) as indicator of adiposity.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Association between body mass index (BMI) and clinical outcomes in PARADISE-MI. ( A ) Histogram for BMI (kg/m 2 ), ( B ) adverse events for BMI subgroups, and spline model curves for ( C ) the primary composite outcome and ( D ) cardiovascular (CV) death by BMI subgroups. 100 patient-years for BMI 40kg/m 2 ).

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background:In Central Asia, hypertension accounts for 14.5% Second group (n=24) consisted of pregnant women with chronic hypertension/CHT. A physical examination was performed, heart rate was assessed, blood pressure was measured according to Korotkov method, body mass index (BMI) was calculated.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

cm/√kg was identified for predicting myocardial infarction, outperforming waist circumference and body mass index (BMI). Interaction analyses demonstrated significant interactions between myocardial infarction incidence and WWI with age, hypertension, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, and stroke (P for interaction 0.05).ConclusionsThe

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this study, we aim to analyze the MHO trends and outcomes with respect to Stroke.Methods:We queried the National Inpatient Sample (2016-2019) to identify Stroke hospitalizations in the elderly population (%E2%89%A565 years) with vs without MHO by using ICD-10 codes after excluding patients with Hypertension, analyze, and Diabetes Mellitus.

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DAIC

MAY 21, 2024

The study is the largest and most robust of its kind to date, examining 102,475 Hello Heart users with high BP (hypertension) between January 2018 and December 2022. months, participants with baseline body mass index (BMI) above 30 kg/m2 lost 12 pounds, or 5.1% of their body weight. Of 102,475 participants, 49.1% were female.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

DECEMBER 7, 2023

DM, diabetes mellitus; HTN, hypertension; LV, left ventricular; NP, natriuretic peptide; PCWP, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure; RV, right ventricular; SV, stroke volume. of patients had BMI ≥30 kg/m 2. Strain measurements in all four chambers were maintained as BMI increased. Overall, 60.9%

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JULY 25, 2023

There are significant data that show that if you have obesity, you have a high risk of developing coronary heart disease, heart failure, type 2 diabetes (T2D) or risk factors such as hypertension and dyslipidemia. [1] These individuals tend to have a better prognosis when compared to both individuals with normal weight (BMI of 18.5

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Reliability of self-reported risk factors was high in overweight (F1 0.81) and diabetes (F1 0.71), moderate in hearing impairment (F1 0.59) and hypertension (F1 0.56) and low in hypercholesterolemia (F1 0.49) and kidney disease (F1 0.25).

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JANUARY 3, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2021 as a once-weekly injection for chronic weight management in adults with obesity and at least one weight-related condition such as type 2 diabetes or hypertension. It became the first approved drug for chronic weight management in adults with obesity since 2014.

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DAIC

MAY 10, 2024

A, Normal axillary lymph nodes measuring milla1cf Fri, 05/10/2024 - 08:12 May 10, 2024 — According to the Summa Cum Laude Award-Winning Online Poster presented during the 124th ARRS Annual Meeting , fat-enlarged axillary nodes on screening mammograms can predict high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, Type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and hypertension (HTN).

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MARCH 23, 2024

When broken down by disease category, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, stroke, osteoarthritis, hypertension and stroke, the pattern is the same. Subscribe now For the supercentenarians (Light Blue Line) who live up to 119 years of age, most of them do not have a major chronic disease until well after 100 years of age 3.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Propensity score-matched analysis (PSM) (1:1) was performed on age, gender, BMI, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, hemoglobin level, LDL level, left ventricular ejection fraction and various drugs including beta blockers, ACEi and ARBi. Both groups were followed for 12 months.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Outcomes were 1 year hospital readmission rates by all-cause and due to repeat stroke.Results:Patients in the intervention group and control group were similar in age, BMI, race, smoking status, as well as rates of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, atrial fibrillation, and history of prior stroke, with the exception of discharge rate to skilled (..)

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Written by Willy Frick A man in his early 40s with BMI 36, hypertension, and a 30 pack-year smoking history presented with three days of chest pain. It started while he was at rest after finishing a workout. He described it as a mild intensity, nagging pain on the right side of his chest with nausea and dyspnea.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The mean BMI was 27.9 One patient had diabetes, 8 had hyperlipidemia, and 9 had hypertension. Of these, 9 (64%) were female with a mean age of 59.6, and 5 (36%) were male with a mean age of 55.4. kg/m2, with 4 classified as obese. All patients were nonsmokers; 2 had a family history of stroke.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Propensity score-matched analysis (PSM) (1:1) was performed with matching for age, gender, race, BMI, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, hemoglobin level, low-density lipid (LDL) level, left ventricular ejection fraction, and various drugs including ACEi, ARBi, ARNI, beta-blockers, and diuretics.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Finally, the reproducibility of the results of cluster analysis is tested in an external cohort (validation set).

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 26, 2024

Strengthening these results (in my opinion) is the baseline health status of the participants: they reported generally few cognitive complaints, had only a slightly overweight body mass index (BMI), and other than hypertension and the use of cholesterol-lowering medications, had a low prevalence of diseases and other risk factors.

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Of course, these benefits can also extend to individuals with a BMI in the normal range. Blood glucose control Resistance exercise training can reduce fasting glucose by 2–5 mg/dL in adults with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes but doesn’t seem to reduce blood glucose in healthy adults (not surprising).

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Of course, these benefits can also extend to individuals with a BMI in the normal range. Blood glucose control Resistance exercise training can reduce fasting glucose by 2–5 mg/dL in adults with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes but doesn’t seem to reduce blood glucose in healthy adults (not surprising).

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DAIC

APRIL 1, 2024

The current analysis pools data from 16 studies conducted between January 2000 and May 2023, evaluating hypertension incidence in 1,044,035 people from six countries who did not have a prior history of high blood pressure over a median follow-up of five years (follow-up ranged from 2.4 to 18 years). The age of the participants ranged from 35.4

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Open Heart

AUGUST 5, 2022

Objective While greater body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF), the impact of BMI on outcomes in newly diagnosed AF is unclear. The study population comprised 40 482 participants: 703 underweight (BMI <18.5 kg/m 2 ), 13 095 normal (BMI=18.5–24.9

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DAIC

JUNE 26, 2024

Semaglutide-mediated improvements in HF-related symptoms and physical limitations were consistent in both male and female participants across key subgroups including age and BMI. It also lowered their systolic blood pressure and waist circumference.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background:Research into pulmonary hypertension (PH) reveals significant sex-based disparities in long-term survival rates. Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4138397-A4138397, November 12, 2024.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We determined their fat oxidation (FATox) by indirect calorimetry.ResultsIn the HF patients, the peak oxygen uptake (VO2) value was 14.763.27ml/kg/min in the T2DM group and 17.764.64ml/kg/min in the non-T2DM group. to 0.82, P<0.01].

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Body mass index (BMI) and diabetes mellitus are independent risk factors for ICAS. Hypertension is an independent risk factor for incident lacunes and CMB, whereas WMH progression is primarily affected by BMI. CSVD markers included lacunes, cerebral microbleeds (CMB), and white matter hyperintensities (WMH).Results:Of

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Multivariable linear regression was used to assess the association between circulating markers of inflammation with internal carotid artery (ICA) CIMT.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Cox regression was used to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) for incident stroke per doubling of EIC levels, and p-values were FDR corrected. Results:Among the 9,444 participants included, the mean age was 57 (5.7 SD), and 43.2% were men.

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