Blood pressure

Reach Out Churches, a community-based participatory research pilot trial to assess the feasibility of a mobile health technology intervention to reduce blood pressure among African Americans

Innovative strategies are needed to reduce the hypertension epidemic among African Americans. Reach Out was a faith-collaborative, mobile health, randomized, pilot intervention trial of four mobile health components to reduce high blood pressure (BP) …

Cigarette smoking and subtypes of uncontrolled blood pressure among diagnosed hypertensive patients: paradoxical associations and implications

**BACKGROUND:** Isolated uncontrolled systolic blood pressure (SBP), uncontrolled systolic-diastolic blood pressure (BP), and isolated uncontrolled diastolic blood pressure (DBP) are subtypes of uncontrolled BP. The associations of smoking with …

Hypertension: from pre-hypertension to heart failure

Alternative approaches for lowering blood pressure

Personalized medicine and treatment approaches in hypertension: current perspectives

In the US, hypertension affects one in three adults. Current guideline-based treatment of hypertension involves little diagnostic testing. A more personalized approach to the treatment of hypertension might be of use. Several methods of personalized …

Acute increase in blood pressure during inhalation of coarse particulate matter air pollution from an urban location

Particulate matter (PM) air pollution is a leading global risk factor for cardiovascular mortality. Although exposure to fine PM

Serum cortisol-to-cortisone ratio and blood pressure in severe obesity before and after weight loss

**BACKGROUND/AIMS:** The pathogenesis of obesity-associated hypertension is poorly understood. Serum cortisol-to-cortisone ratio (F/E ratio) is a marker of cortisol metabolism. Our objective was to determine whether the serum F/E ratio is associated …