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Filter by:The literature unequivocally supports follow-up in the postpartum period post hospital discharge in hypertensive patients, compared to uncomplicated delivery follow-up recommendations of 4-6 weeks postpartum, leading to decreased morbidity and mortality, utilizing at-home blood pressure monitoring and virtual/telemedicine appointments. There is much evidence that telemedicine visits are equally, if not more effective, result in cost savings, and are generally preferred by patients, specifically when there is a risk of exposure for the patient and newborn, an appropriate factor to consider amidst the global Covid-19 pandemic. Maternal health and well-being have substantial links with cultural and racial factors. Black women are three times as likely to have morbid outcomes related to gestational complications, specifically hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Minority populations have historically displayed inferior access to care due to concerns related to transportation, healthcare insurance, or provider accessibility and distrust, resulting in diminished compliance with follow-up and negative health sequelae. Telemedicine follow-up within 10 days of delivery (48-72 hours after discharge) reduces readmission rates, increase access to- and compliance with care, and improve patient safety satisfaction, thus establishing feasibility. Home vital sign monitoring gives an increased volume of data points for providers to utilize in titrating antihypertensive medications to optimize blood pressure control, ultimately decreasing stroke and cardiovascular risk. Existing research lacks comprehension regarding specific cardiological impacts of labile postpartum blood pressures, however researchers inferentially hypothesize that poor blood pressure management in the postpartum period can have devastating long-term cardiological consequences. This QI project will demonstrate standardized programming for patients with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), which may potentially lead to increased compliance, satisfaction, and accessibility, resulting in improved long-term cardiovascular health in vulnerable populations. The American heart Association (AHA) and ACOG have established that HDP are associated with long-term cardiovascular disease, however obstetricians lack guidance on effective, evidence-based research for standardization of care, leading to subsequently disjointed medical management with much room for error in transitioning from obstetrician to internist or cardiologist. Thus, implementing and establishing feasibility of remote monitoring and follow-up while applying standardized algorithms and protocols for antihypertensive medication titration and management may provide support in addressing and eradicating these gaps. As such, this pilot project has massive prospective future applicability and benefit for a highly vulnerable population.
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate exercise capacity, respiratory muscle strength, pulmonary function, dyspnea and physical activity levels in pediatric PAH patients and compare them with healthy controls. The secondary aim of the study was; To investigate the relationship of dyspnea with exercise capacity, respiratory muscle strength, respiratory functions, physical activity and blood count parameters in pediatric PAH patients.
Hypertension is a public health concern and affects nearly a third of the French population. It can be complicated by visceral impact (including brain, heart and kidney complications) as well as on vessels especially large arteries, responsible for arterial stiffening. There are close interactions between heart and kidneys, as well as between large arteries and micro-vessels. These relationships also involve the water and salt balance and its regulatory mechanisms. Urinary concentration abilities are closely linked to the renal medullary blood flow, which in itself depends on the integrity of renal micro vessels, thus influencing the water and salt balance. Few previous studies evaluated the interconnections between renal urinary concentration abilities and blood pressure. A previous-one reported a positive relation between pulse pressure and urinary concentration in men, suggesting that subjects with higher urinary osmolarity could present a higher cardiovascular risk. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity represents the gold standard for non-invasive arterial stiffness assessment and constitutes an arteriosclerosis infra-clinical marker recommended by the European Society of Cardiology- European Society of Hypertension. It is considered as an independent predictor for global and cardiovascular mortality, coronary heart disease and fatal stroke among patients with hypertension, diabetes or end stage kidney disease. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relations between fasting urinary osmolarity and arterial stiffness assessed by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (CF-PWV) among patients with hypertension.
To study whether oxygen therapy titrated to maintain oxygenation (SpO2) > 90% at 2500m would resolve altitude-related adverse health effects, symptoms and impaired exercise during 30h exposure to high altitude.
To determine the effect of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation exercise on blood pressure in patient with mild to moderate hypertension.Both genders will be included.Patients aged between 40 and 60 years with mild and moderate hypertension.Systolic blood pressure 130-160 mmHg or Diastolic Blood Pressure 80-100 mmHg. Sphygmomanometer and EuroQoL five-dimensional instrument would be used for the 'Pre' & 'Post' assessment.
The interest of journeys to high altitude regions for recreational or professional purposes is increasing, also among potentially vulnerable groups including patients with chronic cardiopulmonary diseases such as pulmonary hypertension (PH). In Switzerland and many other regions worldwide, many settlements and alpine resorts are at altitudes above 1500m and alpine tourism is an important social and economic sector. However, the hypoxic environment at altitude may induce altitude related adverse health effects (ARAHE), including hypoxemia, symptoms of acute mountain sickness (AMS), reduces exercise capacity and increases the pulmonary arterial pressure, which is of particular relevance for patients with chronic hypoxemic respiratory diseases including PH. On the other hand, advances in disease-targeted medical combination therapies renders PH to the chronic disease groups with many patients surviving for many years with a relatively good quality of live, exercise capacity and low symptom burden. However, data on ARAHE and the exercise capacity of patients with pre-existing PH at altitude is scarce, so that current expert-based guidelines discourage altitude travel for patients with PH. However, we previously showed that the majority of stable PH-patients tolerates normobaric hypoxia or a short trip to 2500m well. With this project we aim to get profound clinical and pathophysiological insights into the effects of the hypobaric hypoxic environment at altitude during an overnight stay up to 30 hours on the incidence of ARAHE needing oxygen therapy, exercise capacity, pulmonary hemodynamics and sleep in patients with precapillary PH. We hope that this new valuable data will provide a basis to better counsel PH-patients for potential risk of altitude sojourns.
Due to radiation exposure and low but real risk of morbidity and mortality associated with right heart catheterization, non-invasive procedures to estimate mPAP are desired for the diagnosis of PH or to monitor treatment effectiveness. Echocardiography is used as a screening tool to estimate systolic pulmonary arterial pressure (sPAP), but due various limitations, this technique is not considered to be sufficiently accurate for the diagnosis of PH. The aim of 4D flow MRI is to evaluate the complete time-varying tridirectional velocity field in a volume of interest. It enables flow and velocity measurements in a vascular region of interest and visualization of vector plots of blood flow velocity fields. Previous studies have shown on the one hand, correlations between mPAP and hemodynamic parameters obtained by phase contrast MRI and, on the other hand, appearance of a vortical blood flow in the pulmonary artery in PH. More studies are required to confirm 4D MRI as a valuable tool for mPAP estimation in PH. Following screening echocardiography, all patients will undergo right heart catheterization for PH assessment. Then, all patients will be referred for a complete cardiac MRI exam with the addition of a 4D Flow sequence (does not require supplementary injection of a contrast agent and does not extend the duration of the examination) followed promptly (within the same hour) by a Doppler-echocardiography. The data from each examination will be blindly interpreted from the results of the other one. No follow-up will be required for the study.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate pharmacokinetic interactions (Drug-Drug interaction) and safety between "BR1015-1" and "BR1015-2" in healthy volunteers.
Gut microbiota was found to play a causal role in the pathogenesis of hypertension. Probiotics were shown to have a potential anti-hypertensive effect in human/rodent studies. This study aims to explore the effect, safety, and underlying mechanisms of the combination of probiotics, containing 10 strains from Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium, on hypertension, compared with placebo.
To investigate the health effects of a new mobile application (app) for prevention and personalized treatment in people with chronic cardiovascular pathologies associated with body composition.