PURPOSE: To report clinical efficacy, predictors of success, and safety of primary selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) used in treatment-naive patients with open-angle glaucoma (OAG) or ocular hypertension (OHT). DESIGN: Post...
Whether isolated systolic hypertension in the young (ISHY) implies a worse outcome and needs antihypertensive treatment is still a matter for dispute. ISHY is thought to have different mechanisms than systolic hypertension in...
Since its inception in 2012, the British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative (BNTRC) has established itself as a robust example of a trainee-led research collaborative. This article summarises the work of the...
Objective: To evaluate the resistant hypertension in hypertensive patients and its association with age and gender.
Material and methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at Basic Health Unit, Hassan Mandi Bahauddin...
Objective: To evaluate the resistant hypertension in hypertensive patients and its association with age and gender.
Material and methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at Basic Health Unit, Hassan Mandi Bahauddin...
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and prevalence varies by ethnic group. The diagnosis and management of blood pressure are informed by guidelines largely based on data from white...
These guidelines on transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt (TIPSS) in the management of portal hypertension have been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) of the British...
The advancement in information technology is the need of time, and its importance cannot be ignored. People can do online shopping, pay bills, and buy groceries in just a few minutes. Lifestyle patterns and mentalities of people...
BACKGROUND: Half the epidemiological studies with information about menopausal hormone therapy and ovarian cancer risk remain unpublished, and some retrospective studies could have been biased by selective participation or...
BACKGROUND: Rare genetic variants cause pulmonary arterial hypertension, but the contribution of common genetic variation to disease risk and natural history is poorly characterised. We tested for genome-wide association for...
OBJECTIVES: To describe the baseline characteristics of SLE patients requiring biologic therapy in the UK and to explore short term efficacy and infection rates associated with rituximab (RTX) use. METHODS: Patients commencing...
This chapter begins by reviewing the history of citizenship education in social studies curricula in British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a way of framing how the topic has been understood. It then discusses the latest curriculum...
Evidence suggest that promoting a combination of healthy lifestyle behaviors instead of exclusively focusing on a single behavior may have a greater impact on blood pressure (BP). We aimed to evaluate...
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by abnormal remodeling and occlusion of pre-capillary arterioles in the lung with a subsequent increase in pulmonary vascular resistance. This can lead to right ventricular...
OBJECTIVES: To estimate outcomes according to attained blood pressure (BP) in the oldest adults treated for hypertension in routine family practice. DESIGN: Cohort analysis of primary care inpatient and death certificate data...
Hypertension is a leading risk factor of cardiovascular disease and it is becoming increasingly prevalent globally. Correspondingly, the Chinese government and public health institutions have issued a series of policy documents...
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Kojonazarov et al. recently reported severe emphysema in the SU5416/Hypoxia (SuHx) rat model of pulmonary hypertension (1). The authors found that adult male Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats had increased air-to-tissue...
We investigate a group all-pay auction in which each group's effort is represented by the minimum among the effort levels exerted by the group members and the prize is a group-specific public good. We fully characterize the...
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