Thromboembolic Events Secondary to Endoscopic Cyanoacrylate Injection: Can We Foresee Any Red Flags? by Yujen Tseng, Lili Ma, Tiancheng Luo, Xiaoqing Zeng, Yichao Wei, Ling Li, Pengju Xu, Shiyao Chen

“…Gastric varices (GV) are associated with high morbidity and mortality in patients with portal hypertension. Endoscopic cyanoacrylate injection is the first-line recommended therapy for GV obliteration. …”
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Unraveling Ferroptosis: A New Frontier in Combating Renal Fibrosis and CKD Progression by Rui Jin, Yue Dai, Zheng Wang, Qinyang Hu, Cuntai Zhang, Hongyu Gao, Qi Yan

“…Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health concern caused by conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and chronic nephritis, leading to structural and functional kidney injury. …”
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Case Report by Dela Hangri Jalmas, Fauzar Fauzar, Roza Kurniati, Deka Viotra, Harnavi Harun, Vesri Yoga, Alexander Kam

“…The patient works as a security officer. A history of hypertension is present. Laboratory results showed hemoglobin 7 g/dl, ureum 261 mg/dl, and creatinine 22,9 mg/dl. …”
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Odevixibat treatment in a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and severe cholestatic pruritus: a case report by Rainer Ganschow, Christof Maucksch, Peter Rauschkolb, Martin B. E. Schneider

“…A 2-year-old male with Kleefstra syndrome, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and a history of Giessen procedure and biventricular correction surgery presented to the pediatric cardiology and hepatology outpatient clinics at University Children's Hospital Bonn. Portal hypertension was evident on imaging, and the patient was experiencing severe itching attacks that did not respond to treatment with naltrexone, ursodeoxycholic acid, dimetindene, or rifampicin. …”
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The Effect of Chronic Inhouse Biomass Fuel Smoke Exposure on Coronary Slow Flow Phenomenon in Women Living in the Eastern Region of Turkey by Tayyar AKBULUT, Faysal SAYLIK

“…The presence of biomass exposure, body mass index, white blood cell count, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, C-reactive protein, serum creatinine, and hypertension were independent predictors of SCF. The optimal cutoff point of biomass exposure time in years to detect the presence of SCF was 30 years (Area under the curve: 0.71, sensitivity: 0.65, specifity: 0.71). …”
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Preexisting Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis in Patients with and without Cancer by Junyi Guo, Peng Fang, Wei Shi, Pengcheng Luo, Shengqi Huo, Dan Yan, Moran Wang, Dewei Peng, Lintong Men, Sheng Li, Jiagao Lv, Li Lin

“…After adjustment for age, gender, hypertension, diabetes, smoking history, blood glucose, and total cholesterol, cancer was significantly associated with high GS (adjusted OR = 2.208, 95% CI: 1.077–4.524, p=0.031). …”
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Gestational Weight Gain among Healthy Pregnant Women from Asia in Comparison with Institute of Medicine (IOM) Guidelines-2009: A Systematic Review by Priyanka Arora, Bani Tamber Aeri

“…The most common fetal-maternal complications among the excessive GWG women were found to be macrosomia, large for gestational age and caesarean section followed by gestational diabetes and hypertension, whereas low birth weight, small for gestational age and preterm birth, was found to be associated with low GWG women. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Predictors of Mortality in Elderly Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study by Md. Asaduzzaman, Z. H. M. Nazmul Alam, Mohammad Zabed Jillul Bari, M. M. Jahangir Alam, Shishir Ranjan Chakraborty, Tasnim Ferdousi

“…Of the included patients, 202 (82.44%) were discharged and 43 (17.55%) died in hospital. Except hypertension, other comorbidities like diabetes, chronic kidney disease, ischemic heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were more prevalent in nonsurvivors. …”
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From lab to real-life: A three-stage validation of wearable technology for stress monitoring by Basil A. Darwish, Shafiq Ul Rehman, Ibrahim Sadek, Nancy M. Salem, Ghada Kareem, Lamees N. Mahmoud

“…Stress negatively impacts health, contributing to hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and immune dysfunction. …”
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Hypermethylation of Hif3a and Ifltd1 is associated with atrial remodeling in pressure-overload murine model by Keiko Abe, Tetsuo Sasano, Yurie Soejima, Haruhisa Fukayama, Shigeru Maeda, Tetsushi Furukawa

“…Atrial remodeling progresses with aging and background diseases, including hypertension, heart failure, and AF itself. However, its mechanism of action and reversibility have not been completely elucidated. …”
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Parental divorce's long shadow: Elevated stroke risk among older Americans. by Mary Kate Schilke, Philip Baiden, Esme Fuller-Thomson

“…Potentially moderating variables were hypothesized, including childhood poverty, sleep hygiene, and hypertension.…”
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Burden of associated comorbidities in autoimmune rheumatic diseases in Indian population: An interim report based on the Indian rheumatology association database by S Chandrashekara, Padmanabha Shenoy, Uma Kumar, Sapan Pandya, Alakendu Ghosh

“…The most common comorbidity found in patients with RA and PsA was hypertension (20.97%, 17.14%), SLE and SSc was thyroid disease (21.49%, 17.78%), and SpA was diabetes (2.96%). …”
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Placenta Creta: A Spectrum of Lesions Associated with Shallow Placental Implantation by Jerzy Stanek

“…Because of the association of PC with gestational hypertensive diseases, acute and chronic placental hypoxic lesions, increased extravillous trophoblasts in the chorionic disc, chorionic microcysts, and maternal floor trophoblastic giant cells, PC should be regarded as a lesion of abnormal placental implantation and abnormal trophoblast invasion rather than decidual deficiency only.…”
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Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in Health Care Workers: a Multidisciplinary Approach by Teresa Rodríguez Rodríguez, Darianna María Muñiz Cabeza

“…Most frequent chronic diseases were hypertension (33.69 %), diabetes mellitus (19.78 %) and ischemic heart disease (13 %). …”
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Powassan Encephalitis: A Case Report from New York, USA by Danielle A. Bazer, Matthew Orwitz, Nicholas Koroneos, Olga Syritsyna, Elizabeth Wirkowski

“…The patient is a 62-year-old male with a past history of a right putamen infarct, hepatitis C, hypertension, and substance abuse who presented due to acute onset altered mental status, dysarthria, and left-sided facial droop. …”
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Placental Growth Factor, Soluble fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 1, Soluble Endoglin, IL-6, and IL-16 as Biomarkers in Preeclampsia by Carmen Rădulescu, Anca Bacârea, Adina Huțanu, Rozalia Gabor, Minodora Dobreanu

“…Preeclampsia (PE), an important cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide, is a pregnancy-related disease characterized by hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation. …”
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Factors Attributable to Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly Population of the Campo Alegre Resettlement, Tierralta, Córdoba by Carolina Castellanos Ramos, Brayan Domínguez Lozano, Daniela Jiménez Cordero, José Rocha Barraza

“…It was possible to show that arterial hypertension prevailed in the population for both sexes, the educational level is related to the educational level of the population, a greater number of cases was found in the population without studies. …”
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Cardiovascular manifestations in COVID-19 patients by Jyotsna Maddury, Mani Krishna, Achukatla Kumar

“…Preexisting conditions, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension, diabetes, and obesity, increase the severity as well as mortality rate of COVID. …”
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Integrated care teams in primary care improve clinical outcomes and care processes in patients with non-communicable diseases by Pei Lin Hu, Cynthia Yan-Ling Tan, Ngoc Hoang Long Nguyen, Rebekah Ryanne Wu, Juliana Bahadin, Nivedita Vikas Nadkarni, Ngiap Chuan Tan

“…The study population had hypertension, and/or hyperlipidaemia and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). …”
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Effect of Admission Hyperglycemia on Short-Term Prognosis of Patients with Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome without Diabetes Mellitus by Wei Liu, Zhijuan Li, Shiying Xing, Yanwei Xu

“…There was no significant difference between the three groups in terms of age, sex, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking, and history of myocardial infarction (p>0.05). …”
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