Angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity and antihypertensive effects of rice peptides by Jingjing Dong, Shen Wang, Xiaoyao Yin, Min Fang, Zhiyong Gong, Yongning Wu

“…With spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar Kyoto (WKY) as the research objects, RP disposable gastric and long-term gastric irrigation experiments were carried out and systolic blood pressure (SBP) was measured. …”
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Metabolic Syndrome, Chronic Kidney, and Cardiovascular Diseases: Role of Adipokines by Manfredi Tesauro, Maria Paola Canale, Giuseppe Rodia, Nicola Di Daniele, Davide Lauro, Angelo Scuteri, Carmine Cardillo

“…Obesity predisposes to diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephrosclerosis, and focal and segmental glomerular sclerosis and represents an independent risk factor for the development and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). …”
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Dejerine-Roussy Syndrome: Understanding Chronic Thalamic Pain by Saket S Toshniwal, Jiwan Kinkar, Yatika Chadha, Sourya Acharya, Sunil Kumar

“…A 50-year-old male, known to be hypertensive and non compliant with medications, with a significant past history of stroke three months ago, presented to the hospital with chief complaints of persistent burning sensations in his left arm and leg, as well as his entire face. …”
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Height Constitutes an Important Predictor of Mortality in End-Stage Renal Disease by Tsuneo Takenaka, Takahiko Sato, Hitoshi Hoshi, Nobutaka Kato, Keita Sueyoshi, Masahiro Tsuda, Yusuke Watanabe, Hiroshi Takane, Yoichi Ohno, Hiromichi Suzuki

“…Methods. Fifty two hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetic nephropathy receiving hemodialysis and 52 patients with nondiabetic nephropathy were enrolled. …”
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Metal mixtures exposure with risk of elevated serum neurofilament light chain concentrations in U.S. general adults, NHANES 2013–2014 by Yan Wang, Keyi Zhang, Hao Li, Si Liu, Linyao Ying, Lu Xiang, Na Liang, Liangkai Chen, Lin Xiao, Gang Luo

“…Notably, stronger risk associations were observed among elderly, males, smokers, and hypertensive individuals. The results could be significant for detecting and tracking the beginning of neurodegenerative diseases early, as well as helping to pinpoint individuals at high risk.…”
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Stimulation of Alpha1-Adrenergic Receptor Ameliorates Cellular Functions of Multiorgans beyond Vasomotion through PPARδ by Yong-Jik Lee, Hyun Soo Kim, Hong Seog Seo, Jin Oh Na, You-Na Jang, Yoon-Mi Han, Hyun-Min Kim

“…All of those effects occurred around 3 h (and peaked 6 h) after midodrine treatment. In spontaneously hypertensive rats, α1-adrenergic receptor stimulation affected mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and ATP production by activating PPARδ, AMPK, and PGC-1α and the relevant biologic functions of multiple organs, suggesting organ crosstalk. …”
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Umbilical Coiling Index as a Marker of Perinatal Outcome: An Analytical Study by T. Chitra, Y. S. Sushanth, S. Raghavan

“…Hypocoiling (<0.12) was found to be significantly associated with hypertensive disorders, abruptio placentae, preterm labour, oligohydramnios, and fetal heart rate abnormalities. …”
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Intraparenchymal Hematoma as the Beginning of an Arteriovenous Malformation. Case Report by Juan Ibrahim García Leonard, Ada Sánchez Lozano, Masleidy Valladares Valle

“…A case of a 64-year-old female patient, hypertensive and diabetic, who acutely presented with left hemicorporal weakness, is presented. …”
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When thyroid met brain: the enigma of steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis a case report by Palash Kotak, Kashish Khurana, Sarang Raut, Saket Satyasham Toshniwal, Sourya Acharya

“…This report deals with a case of a 54-year-old female with a history of hypothyroidism who presented with hypertensive emergency and atypical neurological symptoms that deteriorated during the hospital stay. …”
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Recurrent Nodular Cystic Goiter. In Regards with a Case by José Alberto Puerto Lorenzo, Lidia Torres Aja, Eslinda Cabanes Rojas

“…We present the case of a 78 year-old male patient, with a history of being an inveterate smoker and hypertensive with treatment, who reported having presented a few months increase in neck volume accompanied by dysphonia and dysphagia to solid foods. …”
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Association between lipid accumulation product and the risk of colon cancer in adults: A population-based study. by Renjie Guo, Weiming Wei

“…The association between LAP levels and colon cancer risk was shown to be M-shaped in the group under 60 years old, inverted V-shaped in the female and no-diabetes groups, and inverted L-shaped in the smoking and no-hypertensive groups, according to stratified smoothed curve fitting.…”
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Placental Chorangiosis: Increased Risk for Cesarean Section by Shariska S. Petersen, Raminder Khangura, Dmitry Davydov, Ziying Zhang, Roopina Sangha

“…It has been proposed to result from longstanding, low-grade hypoxia in the placental tissue and has been associated with such conditions such as diabetes, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), and hypertensive conditions in pregnancy. To characterize chorangiosis and its associated obstetric outcomes we identified 61 cases of “chorangiosis” on placental pathology at Henry Ford Hospital from 2010 to 2015. …”
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Variation in Provider Identification of Obesity by Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Characteristics among an Insured Population by Sara N. Bleich, Jeanne M. Clark, Suzanne M. Goodwin, Mary Margaret Huizinga, Jonathan P. Weiner

“…The odds of having an obesity diagnosis code were greater among members who were female, aged 44 or below, hypertensive, dyslipidemic, BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2, had a larger number of provider visits, or who lived in an urban area (all P<.05). …”
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Esophageal Motility Disorders: Current Concepts of Pathogenesis and Treatment by Peter J Kahrilas

“…Nonspecific motility disorders, including nutcracker esophagus and hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter, are identified only by manometry and are ten times as prevalent. …”
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Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum associated with Ventriculo-Coronary Arterial Communication in a Fetus at 21 Weeks of Gestation by Can Yilmaz Yozgat, Yanki Celik Yilmazer, Yilmaz Yozgat

“…The essential associated cardiac finding of PA-IVS is ventricular-coronary arterial communications (VCAC). The hypertensive RV forces blood through the intramyocardial sinusoids with continuous fistulous contact with the epicardial branches of RCA. …”
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Findings from a Statewide Teleretina Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program in Arkansas by Megan Shirey, Alexander Kwok, Holly Jenkins, Sami Uwaydat

“…From February 2019 to May 2022, 668 patients underwent imaging; 645 images were deemed of sufficient quality to generate an interpretation. 541 patients had no evidence of DR, while 104 patients had some evidence of DR. 587 patients had no evidence of maculopathy, while 58 patients had some evidence of maculopathy on imaging. 246 patients had other pathology evident on imaging, with the most common being hypertensive retinopathy, glaucoma suspects, and cataracts. …”
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Interaction mechanism of egg white- derived ACE inhibitory peptide TNGIIR with ACE and its effect on the expression of ACE and AT1 receptor by Zhipeng Yu, Hui Guo, David Shiuan, Chensi Xia, Wenzhu Zhao, Long Ding, Fuping Zheng, Jingbo Liu

“…In addition, the potential antihypertensive effect of the oral administration of TNGIIR in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) was investigated, as was the effect of this peptide on the mRNA expression of ACE and angiotensin type 1 (AT1) and type 2 (AT2) receptors in renal tissue. …”
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Older Adults Accessing HIV Care and Treatment and Adherence in the IeDEA Central Africa Cohort by Jamie Newman, Jeniffer Iriondo-Perez, Jennifer Hemingway-Foday, Anna Freeman, Wilfred Akam, Ashu Balimba, Lucien Kalenga, Marcel Mbaya, Brigitte Mfangam Molu, Henri Mukumbi, Théodore Niyongabo, Joseph Atibu, Innocent Azinyue, Modeste Kiumbu

“…Those aged 50+ were more evenly distributed between women and men (56% versus 44%) as compared to those aged 18–49 (71% versus 29%) and were more likely to be hypertensive (8% versus 3%) (P<0.05). Those aged 50+ were more likely to be adherent to their medications than those aged 18–49 (P<0.001). …”
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Severe Gingival Enlargement with Coexisting Erosive Lichen Planus in Severe Chronic Periodontitis Patient by Ambika Sharma, Chakshu Aggarwal, Vijay P. Mathur, Divesh Sardana

“…The presented case highlights the significance of proper diagnosis and the management of simultaneously occurring gingival lesions. A 49-year-old hypertensive female presented with painful enlarged bleeding and suppurating gums with burning sensation on eating food along with long-term usage of antihypertensive drug amlodipine known for its gingival enlargement effect. …”
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Diagnostic Agreement between Prehospital Emergency and In-Hospital Physicians by Nikolai Ramadanov, Roman Klein, Fabian Laue, Wilhelm Behringer

“…There was a high proportion of diagnostic agreement for hypoglycemia (97%), atrial fibrillation (87%), cramping seizure (86%), hypertensive crisis (85.5%), and syncope (81%). There was a low proportion of diagnostic agreement for chest wall pain (27%), pneumonia (32%), and cardiac decompensation (53%). …”
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