Elevated blood pressure and household solid fuel use in premenopausal women: Analysis of 12 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 10 countries

RE Arku, M Ezzati, J Baumgartner, G Fink, B Zhou… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Approximately three billion people are exposed to household air pollution
(HAP) from solid fuel cookstoves. Studies from single settings have linked HAP with elevated …

Utilizing proteomics to understand and define hypertension: where are we and where do we go?

C Delles, E Carrick, D Graham… - Expert Review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Hypertension is a complex and multifactorial cardiovascular disorder. With
different mechanisms contributing to a different extent to an individual's blood pressure, the …

Inverse correlation between daily outdoor temperature and blood pressure in six US cities

JM Radin, D Neems, R Goglia, K Siddiqui… - Blood pressure …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
This study aims to evaluate the relationship between mean outdoor temperature and mean
daily blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) among six, large, geographically and …

[HTML][HTML] Factors affecting seasonal changes in blood pressure in North India: a population based four-seasons study

A Goyal, N Aslam, S Kaur, RK Soni, V Midha… - Indian heart …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective There are no community based, longitudinal, intra individual epidemiological
studies on effect of weather and season on blood pressure (BP). We evaluated the effect of …

Self-regulated use of a wearable activity sensor is not associated with improvements in physical activity, cardiometabolic risk or subjective health status

SS Thosar, M Niederhausen, J Lapidus… - British journal of sports …, 2018 - bjsm.bmj.com
Methods We recruited 431 healthy, mostly white (59%) male (61%) volunteers aged 41±9
years (mean±SD), body mass index (BMI) 28±6 kg/m 2 (23.6% obese) from a common …

Temperature and age–gender effects on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases

CT Low, PC Lai, PSS Yeung, AYC Siu… - Hong Kong Journal …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: Temperature is a key factor influencing the occurrence of out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest, yet there is no equivalent study in Hong Kong. This study reports results …

Cardiovascular responses to cold exposure in untreated hypertension

H Hintsala - 2018 - oulurepo.oulu.fi
Cold weather associates with higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in various
climates. It is also known that exposure to a cold environment instantly activates sympathetic …