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risk of the metabolic syndrome, which could be associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) ( 3 ). The definition of the metabolic syndrome includes elevated blood pressure (BP) ( 3 ). It is estimated that more than 30% of women with
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Biolaboratories, Hsinchu City, Taiwan). Measurement of blood pressure Systolic blood pressure and pulse rates were measured using the tail-cuff method (Model MK-2000ST; Muromachi Kikai, Tokyo, Japan) ( 22 ). The average value obtained from three to five
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have persistent hypertension ( 2 ). Lodish found that blood pressure in pediatric patients with CS was positively correlated with urinary free cortisol (UFC) and midnight cortisol before operation ( 4 ). Despite the decrease in blood pressure values
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Introduction High blood pressure (BP) increases cardiovascular risk and constitutes one of the primary modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease ( 1 ). Elevated BP in childhood increases the risk of prehypertension and hypertension in
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(PBZ) and doxazosin was compared in a randomized design showing improved hemodynamic stability in the PBZ group using a composite score but no difference between groups in maintaining blood pressure within target range ( 6 ). However, there is no
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inactivity ( 10 ), smoking ( 11 ), and depression ( 12 ), and higher blood pressure (BP) have been observed in men ( 13 ). Increased cortisol secretion is one factor that might contribute to treatment-resistant hypertension ( 14 ). Increased cortisol
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Introduction Hypertension, characterized by chronically elevated blood pressure (BP) above 140/90 mmHg, is a major public health problem affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide ( 1 , 2 ). Despite multiple methods to prevent and manage
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, dyslipidaemia, elevated blood pressure and elevated fasting glucose. However, the estimated prevalence of MetS differs between various populations, because variations exist in the frequencies of metabolic risk components ( 2 ). It has also been reported that the
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Introduction A great majority of hypertensive subjects (~90%) have primary hypertension with an undefined aetiology ( 1 ). Circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentration has been associated with blood pressure (BP) ( 2 , 3 , 4 ) and
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the effects of vitamin D on CVD risk factors. There are associations pointing to an increase in systolic, and to a lesser degree diastolic blood pressure with decreasing serum 25(OH)D levels ( 4 , 5 ). This may be due to activation of the renin