Objectives ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is an important cause of the morbidity and mortality in coronary artery disease. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship…
Background Hypertensives in whom the 24-h blood pressure variability (BPV) is low have a lower prevalence and severity of target-organ damage than those in whom BPV is high. The association…
Beta blockers are one of the major class of drugs for the treatment of hypertension. However they are not recommended as first-line antihypertensive agents in most of the recent guidelines….
In recent years, much attention is paid to the study of dispersions of (QTd) QT interval values in patients with arterial hypertension (AH) – the marker of repolarization inhomogeneity and…
Objective Sympathetic overactivity plays an important role on the development of resistant hypertension (RH). However, the effect of sympathetic predominance on left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in RH is not very…
Background Impaired aortic elasticity (stiffness) is shown to be associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in essential hypertension. Previous studies showed that activated monocytes and low HDL-cholesterol might have a…
Background We recently have shown in mice using 3rd generation microscopic USG that basal septal hypertrophy (BSH) is an early imaging biomarker of hypertrophy in physiologic and pathologic stress (Circulation…
Objectives SH are sulfur analogs of alcohols and founds as frees and oxidized form in plasma. The plasma SH source is mainly consisting for the glycine, glutamic acid, cysteine tripeptide…
Introduction Macao Follow up Study 2011 was a phone follow up to the participants who showed up in the Macao Health Survey 2006 (MHS2006). The response rate of the follow…
Objective Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio is a novel parameter for cardiovascular research area. The higher values of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio have been found to be associated with worse clinical…
