Association of Apolipoprotein E Polymorphisms and Risks of Ischemic Stroke in Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Na Wang, Qian Liu, Hui Liu, Xiao Cong, Hui Yang, Yang Yu, Yongtong Cao, Liang Ma

“…The systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and the proportion of patients with a history of hypertension were higher in the case patients than that in the controls. …”
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Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Suburban Community in Nigeria by Titilope Modupe Dokunmu, Omolara Faith Yakubu, Abiodun Humphrey Adebayo, Grace Iyabo Olasehinde, Shalom Nwodo Chinedu

“…Overall, 182 subjects aged >16 years participated in the study. Systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was measured after a resting period using mercury sphygmomanometer. …”
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Epidemiological and Genome-Wide Association Study of Gastritis or Gastric Ulcer in Korean Populations by Sumin Oh, Sejong Oh

“…As a result of the logistic regression, a relation with hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, hyperlipidemia therapy, hypotensive or antihypotensive drug, diastolic blood pressure, and gastritis was seen in males; the results of this study suggest that vascular disease has a potential association with gastritis in males.…”
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Patterns of Change in Cognitive Function over Six Months in Adults with Chronic Heart Failure by Barbara Riegel, Christopher S. Lee, Dale Glaser, Stephen T. Moelter

“…A battery of neuropsychological tests was administered to 279 adults with chronic systolic or diastolic HF at baseline, three and six months. Growth mixture modeling (GMM) was used to model the measure anticipated to be most sensitive, the digit symbol substitution task (DSST). …”
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Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Function in Type 1 Gaucher's Disease by Mirta Koželj, Samo Zver, Vesna Zadnik

“…Compared to the control group, there was no statistically significant difference observed in the most sensitive indices of left ventricular diastolic function, parameter Em (P=.095), and E/Em ratio (P=.097), as demonstrated by tissue Doppler echocardiography. …”
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Effect of Topical Mometasone Furoate Cream (0.01 % w/w) on Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar and Blood Calcium Level by Chetan Javsen, Avanti Ghadage

“…Mometasone Furoate did not cause any changes in either systolic or diastolic blood pressure, blood sugar or calcium levels after seven days. …”
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THERAPY FOR HYPERTENSION WITH ACUPUNTURE AND HERBAL CUCUMBER (Cucumis sativus (L.)) by Yuninda Asyroful Kamaliyah, Ario Imandiri, Myrna Adianti

“…Background : Hypertension or high blood pressure is an increase in systolic blood presure ≥ 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg in a person's body, when two measurements are taken with an interval of five minutes so that the body is resting or quite calm. …”
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Acute and Chronic Fetal Anemia as a Result of Fetomaternal Hemorrhage by Paul Singh, Tara Swanson

“…A 36-year-old gravida 6 para 3 presented at 37 and 5/7 completed gestational weeks with ultrasound findings suggestive of chronic fetal anemia such as right ventricular enlargement, diminished cerebral vascular resistance, and elevated middle cerebral artery end-diastolic velocity. On the other hand, signs of acute fetal decompensation such as deterioration of the fetal heart tracing, diminished biophysical score, decreased cord pH, and increased cord base deficit were noted. …”
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Subclinical systolic dysfunction in children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome identified by speckle tracking echocardiography by Mohamed Hashem Mahgoob, Amr Mostafa Setouhi

“…Conclusions Subclinical systolic and diastolic LV dysfunction should be screened in NS especially SRNS children.…”
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Acanthosis nigricans and its association with cardio-metabolic risk factors in children with overweight/obesity: A school-based cross-sectional study by Rashmi R. Das, Manaswini Mangaraj, Saurav Nayak, Amit K. Satapathy, Samarendra Mahapatro

“…Children with AN had higher body mass index [BMI] (P < 0.01), waist circumference [WC] (P < 0.01), systolic (P = 0.03), and diastolic BP (P = 0.02), hyperglycemia (P = 0.02), hyperinsulinemia (P < 0.01), and a higher HOMA-IR (P < 0.01) compared to those without AN. …”
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The Metabolic Syndrome among Postmenopausal Women in Gorgan by Abdoljalal Marjani, Sedigheh Moghasemi

“…The mean body mass index, waist circumference, hip, circumference waist-to-hip ratio, diastolic blood pressure, and triglyceride and fasting blood glucose levels were significantly high among postmenopausal women with metabolic syndrome, but the mean HDL-cholesterol was significantly low (P<0.05). …”
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Ocular Image and Haemodynamic Features Associated with Different Gradings of Ipsilateral Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis by Hui Wang, Hongyang Li, Xiaojie Zhang, Lanyan Qiu, Zhenchang Wang, Yanling Wang

“…The peak systolic velocity (PSV) and end diastolic velocity (EDV) in the central retinal artery (CRA) and the posterior ciliary artery (PCA) were significantly lower than normal eyes (p<0.001). …”
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A Single Dose of Beetroot Gel Rich in Nitrate Does Not Improve Performance but Lowers Blood Glucose in Physically Active Individuals by Julia Vasconcellos, Diego Henrique Silvestre, Diego dos Santos Baião, João Pedro Werneck-de-Castro, Thiago Silveira Alvares, Vânia M. Flosi Paschoalin

“…Plasma glucose concentrations lowered after the exercise and the decrease was maintained for 20 min. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures, serum cortisol, and blood lactate were not altered after the beetroot gel ingestion compared to a placebo gel. …”
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Health-Related Quality of Life, Blood Pressure, and Biochemical and Anthropometric Profile in Vegetarians and Nonvegetarians by Jacksaint Saintila, Tabita E. Lozano López, Percy G. Ruiz Mamani, Michael White, Salomón Huancahuire-Vega

“…Nonvegetarian males had higher diastolic pressure levels. Vegetarian women had significantly higher levels of systolic pressure. …”
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Sympathovagal Imbalance in Prehypertensive Offspring of Two Parents versus One Parent Hypertensive by G. K. Pal, Pravati Pal, Nivedita Nanda, V. Lalitha, T. K. Dutta, C. Adithan

“…LF-HF ratio, the marker of SVI was correlated more with diastolic pressure, 30 : 15 ratio and E : I ratio in prehypertensives and the degree of correlation was more in group III prehypertensives. …”
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The Effect of the Thioether-Bridged, Stabilized Angiotensin-(1–7) Analogue Cyclic Ang-(1–7) on Cardiac Remodeling and Endothelial Function in Rats with Myocardial Infarction by Matej Durik, Richard van Veghel, Anneke Kuipers, Rick Rink, Marijke Haas Jimoh Akanbi, Gert Moll, A. H. Jan Danser, Anton J. M. Roks

“…In addition, cAng-(1–7) lowered left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and improved endothelial function. …”
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Machine learning based quantitative pain assessment for the perioperative period by Gayeon Ryu, Jae Moon Choi, Hyeon Seok Seok, Jaehyung Lee, Eun-Kyung Lee, Hangsik Shin, Byung-Moon Choi

“…These results highlight the models’ effectiveness in pain assessment throughout the surgical process, identifying waveform skewness and diastolic phase rate decrease as critical for intraoperative pain assessment and systolic phase area or baseline fluctuation as significant for postoperative pain assessment. …”
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Utilization of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Assessing Myocardial Fibrosis in Prognosis Evaluation and Risk Stratification of Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy by Xin-Yi Feng, Yu-Cong Zheng, Ying-Xia Yang, Wen-Feng He, Fan Yang, Ling-Li Wang, Han-Feng Yang, Chun-Ping Li, Xiao-Xue Xu, Rui Li

“…Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is the ultimate manifestation of the myocardial response to various genetic and environmental changes and is characterized mainly by impaired left ventricular systolic and diastolic function. DCM can ultimately lead to heart failure, ventricular arrhythmia (VA), and sudden cardiac death (SCD), making it a primary indication for heart transplantation. …”
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Behaviour of the Foramen Ovale Flow in Fetuses with Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Ângela R. L. Nader, Paulo Zielinsky, Alexandre Antonio Naujorks, Luiz Henrique S. Nicoloso, Antonio Luiz Piccoli Junior, Natássia Miranda Sulis, Luiza Ferreira van der Sand, Victoria de Bittencourt Antunes, Gabriela dos Santos Marinho, Fernanda Greinert dos Santos, Natan Pereira Gosmann, Eduardo Becker Júnior, Renato Frajndlich, Tamara Beherens, Marcelo Brandão da Silva, Caroline Barbisan, Stefano Busato, Mauro Lopes, Caroline Klein

“…The FO flow pulsatility index is increased in fetuses with IUGR, probably as a result of impaired left ventricular diastolic function.…”
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A Neovascularized Left Atrial Mass by Rania Hammami, Leila Abid, Souad Mallek, Ilyes Kharrat, Mariem Ellouz, Mourad Hentati, Imed Frikha, Samir Kammoun

“…The cardiac auscultation, revealed an irregular rhythm with diastolic murmur at the apex. The electrocardiogram showed an atrial fibrillation. …”
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