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Reflex control of circulation in the elderly
Baroreceptor control of heart rate is markedly reduced in elderly subjects. However, the effects of aging on baroreceptor control of blood pressure and on the vascular and neurohumoral influences of volume car...
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New Aspects of Antihypertensive Treatment
This paper briefly reviews recent evidence concerning the relationship between hypertension and alterations in glucose and lipid metabolism and renal and cardiac damage.
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Early impairment of large artery structure and function in Type I diabetes mellitus
Aims/hypothesis. Diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased incidence of atherosclerosis. How early functional and structural alterations of large arteries that may preceed atherosclerosis...
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35th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Progression of large artery structural and functional alterations in Type I diabetes
Aims/hypothesis. Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is accompanied by reduced arterial distensibility and increased arterial wall thickness even in normotensive subjects with no micro-m...
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First Italian Consensus Statement on Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Complications in HIV-infected Patients in the HAART Era (2006)
The present document contains recommendations for assessment, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular risk for HIV-infected patients. All recommendations were graded according to the strength and quality of...
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4.2 Echographic Evaluation of Cardiac Toxicity and Tissue Characterization After Anthracycline Chemotherapy in Childhood: The Importance of Fractional Shortening (FS)
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10.2 Study of 24-Hour Glycaemia Variability and Arterial Structure and Function in Type 1 Diabetic Patients
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10.10 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Evaluation of Aortic Distensibility in Essential Hypertensive Patients
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4.3 Alterations in Cardiac Structure in Nondiabetic Offsprings of Diabetic Patients
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2.3 Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in HIV Patients
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10.3 Effects of 2 Years Treatment with Quinapril on Carotid Intima Media in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
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10.9 Changes of IMT and Arterial Stiffness in Subclinical Sleep Apnoea
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Open AccessP.075 Tissue Characterization of Carotid Wall in Mildly Diseased Arteries: Comparison of Videodensitometric Analysis and Integrated Backscatter
Integrated backscatter analysis (IBS) is the reference technique for tissue characterization by ultrasound. However, this approach is equipment-dependent, so that its practical use on wide-scale basis is limit...
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Open AccessP.057 Aortic Distensibility by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Esential Hypertension
It is demonstrated that Essential Hypertension is accompanied by a reduction of large artery distensibility (Dist), which represents a marker of demonstrated prognostic significance. Dist can be assessed by ec...
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12.4 Effects of Triglyceridaemia on Carotid Wall Thickness in Treated Essential Hypertension
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7.4 Early Cardiac Damage in High Cardiovascular Risk Patients
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1.2 Comparison Between CRP and Other Conventional Risk Factors on Arterial Stiffness in Treated Essential Hypertension
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5.2 Myocardial Integrated Backscatter in Normotensive and Hypertensive Diabetic Patients
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Protective effects of renin–angiotensin blockade beyond blood pressure control
Antihypertensive drugs exert a number of blood pressure-independent benefits. However, demonstrating the clinical significance of these effects may be difficult for a number of reasons. First, blood pressure c...