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Open AccessThe Results of the URRAH (Uric Acid Right for Heart Health) Project: A Focus on Hyperuricemia in Relation to Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease and its Role in Metabolic Dysregulation
The relationship between Serum Uric Acid (UA) and Cardiovascular (CV) diseases has already been extensively evaluated, and it was found to be an independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality ...
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Open AccessReal-world Antihypertensive Treatment Patterns, Treatment Adherence, and Blood Pressure Control in the Elderly: An Italian Awareness-raising Campaign on Hypertension by Senior Italia FederAnziani, the Italian Society of Hypertension and the Italian Federation of General Practitioners
Achieving hypertension control is beneficial regardless of age. Fixed-combination pills have the potential of increasing adherence to treatment, improving the benefit/risk ratio, and simplifying therapy, with ...
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Open AccessThe UrgeRe (Urgenze Ipertensive: Un Progetto Educazionale Fondato Sulla Vita Reale, Hypertensive Urgencies: A Project in the Real World) Project
The approach to hypertensive emergiencies (HE) and urgencies (HU) may be different according to local clinical practice, despite recent guidelines and position papers recommendations. The Italian Society of Hy...
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Open AccessP111 Arterial Stiffness and Unattended and Attended BP Values
Measurement of “unattended” blood pressure (BP) may reduce or eliminate the “white coat effect”. Despite the possible advantages of this approach for BP measurement, only few studies analysed the relationship ...
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Open AccessP123 Unattended and Attended BP Values and Vasculare and Cardiac Organ Damage
It has been suggested that measurement of “unattended” blood pressure values may provide advantages over conventional BP measurement; some hypertension guidelines now suggest this approach as the preferred one...
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Open AccessP41: Myocardial Mechanoenergetic Efficiency Index (MMEI) and Arterial Stiffness: association in A General Population in Norther Italy
A non-invasive approach for the estimation of mechanical efficiency through the calculation of the ratio between stroke work and HR-pressure product has been recently proposed by de Simone et al. This index, w...
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Open AccessP38: Ascending Aorta Dimensions and Clinic and 24 Hours Blood Pressure in A General Population in Northern Italy: The Vobarno Study
Epidemiological studies have suggested that even mild enlargement of the ascending aorta may have independent prognostic significance for cardiovascular events.
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Open AccessErratum to: Efficacy of Zofenopril vs. Irbesartan in Combination with a Thiazide Diuretic in Hypertensive Patients with Multiple Risk Factors not Controlled by a Previous Monotherapy: A Review of the Double-Blind, Randomized “Z” Studies
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Open AccessEfficacy of Zofenopril vs. Irbesartan in Combination with a Thiazide Diuretic in Hypertensive Patients with Multiple Risk Factors not Controlled by a Previous Monotherapy: A Review of the Double-Blind, Randomized “Z” Studies
Combinations between an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) and hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) are among the recommended treatments for hypertensive patients u...
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Effect of long-term treatment with melatonin on vascular markers of oxidative stress/inflammation and on the anticontractile activity of perivascular fat in aging mice
Some reports have suggested that inflammation in perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) may be implicated in vascular dysfunction by causing the disappearance of an anticontractile effect. The aim of this study wa...
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Open AccessManagement of Hypercholesterolemia, Appropriateness of Therapeutic Approaches and New Drugs in Patients with High Cardiovascular Risk
Control of lipid levels is one of the most effective strategies for cardiovascular (CV) event prevention. In fact, many clinical trials have clearly demonstrated that low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C...
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Chronic disease in the ethnic minority and migrant groups: time for a paradigm shift in Europe
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Open AccessP2.2 Resistant Hypertension and Structural Alterations of Subcutaneous Small Resistance Arteries
It is was suggested that, in resistant hypertension, the presence of particularly pronounced microvascular alterations may contribute to explain the relative lack of response to treatment. Similarly, in diabet...
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Open AccessP6.12 Aortic and Local Carotid Stiffness: Relationship with Cardiac and Vascular Organ Damage in a General Population Sample in Northern Italy
Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (aoPWV), the gold-standard measurement of arterial stiffness, has been found associated with cardiac and vascular organ damage. Less information is available with regard to ...
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Open AccessP2.1 Aging and Structural Alterations of Subcutaneous Small Resistance Arteries in Hypertensive Patients
It was proposed that early vascular ageing may be an important mechanism of vascular damage in large conductance arteries. However it is not known whether aging may also affect small resistance artery morphology.
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Open AccessZofenopril Plus Hydrochlorothiazide and Irbesartan Plus Hydrochlorothiazide in Previously Treated and Uncontrolled Diabetic and Non-diabetic Essential Hypertensive Patients
In most treated patients with hypertension, a two or more drug combination is required to achieve adequate blood pressure (BP) control. In our study we assessed whether the combination of zofenopril + hydrochl...
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Resistant hypertension and target organ damage
Cardiovascular (CV) complications such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, stroke and renal failure are related to both the degree and the duration of blood pressure (BP) increase. Resistant hypertension ...
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Open AccessBlood pressure control and treatment adherence in hypertensive patients with metabolic syndrome: protocol of a randomized controlled study based on home blood pressure telemonitoring vs. conventional management and assessment of psychological determinants of adherence (TELEBPMET Study)
Inadequate blood pressure control and poor adherence to treatment remain among the major limitations in the management of hypertensive patients, particularly of those at high risk of cardiovascular events. Pre...
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Calliphora vicina human myiasis: a case report
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Open AccessInterrelationships between macro and microvascular structure and function
Macrovasculature and microvasculature are interrelated, and may influence each other. Microvascular structure is not only the site of vascular resistance but probably also the origin of most of the wave reflec...