Browsing Internal Medicine by Subject "Blood pressure"

Browsing Internal Medicine by Subject "Blood pressure"

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  • Autonomic response to exercise as measured by cardiovascular variability 
    Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Ker, James A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008)
    MOTIVATION: There is growing interest in the use of cardiovascular variability indicators as measures of autonomic activity,even though reported results are not always comparable or as expected. This review aims to determine ...
  • Burning issues in blood pressure control 
    Ker, James A.; Outhoff, Kim (OASIS, 2019-03)
    Globally more than 1 billion people have hypertension and it is predicted that because of ageing populations and increasing sedentary lifestyles, this figure will rise to about 1.5 billion by 2025. Elevated blood pressure ...
  • Fatal attraction 
    Ker, James A. (New Media Publishing, 2016-04)
    Hypertension and diabetes are linked and could be considered a fatal attraction. Elevated blood pressure is twice as common in people with diabetes as compared to people without diabetes.
  • Higher protein intake reduce risk of hypertension 
    Ker, James A. (New Media Publishing, 2015-11)
    Hypertension remains the most important treatable risk factor for cardiac disease worldwide.In the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) trials the importance of diet patterns to reduce blood pressure (BP), were shown.
  • Is it really a benign condition? 
    Ker, James A. (Media 24, 2015-06)
    Whitecoat hypertension (or isolated clinic hypertension) is currently defined as elevated blood pressure (BP) when measured in the clinic, but normal BP when assessed away from the medical environment.
  • The noncommunicable disease outcomes of primary healthcare screening in two rural subdistricts of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa 
    Rheeder, Paul; Morris-Paxton, Angela A.; Ewing, Rose-Marie G.; Woods, Dillon (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-10-27)
    BACKGROUND : Middle and lower income countries are challenged with a double burden of disease: while still coping with the onslaught of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and increasing levels of tuberculosis (TB), there ...
  • An unresolved problem 
    Ker, James A. (Media 24, 2015-04)
    The impact of hypertension as a risk factor on the occurrence of cardiovascular disease clinical events should not be underestimated.