Arterial stiffness and cardiovascular risk in hypertension

P Boutouyrie, P Chowienczyk, JD Humphrey… - Circulation …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Arterial stiffness, a leading marker of risk in hypertension, can be measured at material or
structural levels, with the latter combining effects of the geometry and composition of the …

Sex differences in blood pressure regulation and hypertension: renal, hemodynamic, and hormonal mechanisms

ER Drury, J Wu, JC Gigliotti, TH Le - Physiological Reviews, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The teleology of sex differences has been argued since at least as early as Aristotle's
controversial Generation of Animals more than 300 years BC, which reflects the sex bias of …

Global burden of hypertension and systolic blood pressure of at least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015

MH Forouzanfar, P Liu, GA Roth, M Ng, S Biryukov… - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Elevated systolic blood (SBP) pressure is a leading global health risk.
Quantifying the levels of SBP is important to guide prevention policies and interventions …

Associations between gut microbiota, faecal short-chain fatty acids, and blood pressure across ethnic groups: the HELIUS study

BJH Verhaar, D Collard, A Prodan… - European heart …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aims Preliminary evidence from animal and human studies shows that gut microbiota
composition and levels of microbiota-derived metabolites, including short-chain fatty acids …

Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: a cross-sectional cohort study

H Kaplan, RC Thompson, BC Trumble, LS Wann… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Conventional coronary artery disease risk factors might potentially explain at
least 90% of the attributable risk of coronary artery disease. To better understand the …

Early and supernormal vascular aging: clinical characteristics and association with incident cardiovascular events

RM Bruno, PM Nilsson, G Engström, BN Wadström… - …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Pulse wave velocity is an established marker of early vascular aging but may also help
identifying individuals with supernormal vascular aging. We tested the hypothesis that …

Update: ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

JT Flynn, SR Daniels, LL Hayman, DM Maahs… - …, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
However, an obesity-related increase in BP has not been documented in all studies. In the
Bogalusa Heart Study, which used the mean of 6 resting BP measurements instead of 2 or 3 …

An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease

S Horvath, M Gurven, ME Levine, BC Trumble… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Epigenetic biomarkers of aging (the “epigenetic clock”) have the potential to
address puzzling findings surrounding mortality rates and incidence of cardio-metabolic …

Cuffless blood pressure estimation from PPG signals and its derivatives using deep learning models

C El-Hajj, PA Kyriacou - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Blood pressure (BP) is a direct indicator for hypertension, therefore, continuous and non-
invasive BP monitoring is essential for reducing future health complications. Most non …

Physical activity, health benefits, and mortality risk

P Kokkinos - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A plethora of epidemiologic evidence from large studies supports unequivocally an inverse,
independent, and graded association between volume of physical activity, health, and …