Article
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Zeinab Bidel, Milad Nazarzadeh, Dexter Canoy, Emma Copland, Eva Gerdts, Mark Woodward, Ajay K. Gupta, Christopher M. Reid, William C. Cushman, Kristian Wachtell, Koon Teo, Barry R. Davis, John Chalmers, Carl J. Pepine, Kazem Rahimi
Summary: The effects of blood pressure-lowering treatment on cardiovascular outcomes do not differ by sex, regardless of baseline blood pressure levels and age categories.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Lijun Zhang, Guo Li, Meiyan Liu
Summary: This meta-analysis aimed to explore the association between SSRIs and blood pressure in patients with CVD and depression. The results showed that SSRIs had no effect on SBP and DBP overall, but significantly lowered DBP in hypertensive patients. Further research is needed to understand the potential mechanisms.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2023)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Fahimeh Haghighatdoost, Parisa Hajihashemi, Amanda Maria de Sousa Romeiro, Noushin Mohammadifard, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Cesar de Oliveira, Erika Aparecida Silveira
Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize the current evidence on the association of coffee with hypertension risk in observational studies. The results showed an inverse association between coffee consumption and hypertension risk, but this association varied by study characteristics.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Hadiseh Rabiei, Soleiman Ramezanifar, Soheil Hassanipour, Noradin Gharari
Summary: The meta-analysis study revealed a significant association between noise exposure and cardiovascular disease, as well as a significant difference between sound intensity and blood pressure. It is important to study and identify jobs or living environments with noise levels lower than recommended standards, and to address issues related to over-exposure, such as cardiovascular disease.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Gonzalo Saco-Ledo, Pedro L. Valenzuela, Miguel Ramirez-Jimenez, Javier S. Morales, Adrian Castillo-Garcia, James A. Blumenthal, Luis M. Ruilope, Alejandro Lucia
Summary: Studies have shown that a single bout of acute aerobic exercise can effectively reduce 24-hour, daytime, and nighttime blood pressure in hypertensive patients, with similar effects in both medicated and non-medicated individuals. Aerobic exercise has the most significant impact on blood pressure, while resistance or combined (aerobic and resistance) exercise has no significant effects on blood pressure.
Article
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Christopher E. Clark, Fiona C. Warren, Kate Boddy, Sinead T. J. McDonagh, Sarah F. Moore, Maria Teresa Alzamora, Rafel Ramos Blanes, Shao-Yuan Chuang, Michael H. Criqui, Marie Dahl, Gunnar Engstrom, Raimund Erbel, Mark Espeland, Luigi Ferrucci, Maelenn Guerchet, Andrew Hattersley, Carlos Lahoz, Robyn L. McClelland, Mary M. McDermott, Jackie Price, Henri E. Stoffers, Ji-Guang Wang, Jan Westerink, James White, Lyne Cloutier, Rod S. Taylor, Angela C. Shore, Richard J. McManus, Victor Aboyans, John L. Campbell
Summary: The study found that using blood pressure readings from the higher arm instead of the lower arm can more accurately diagnose and manage hypertension. Models based on higher arm BP performed better in predicting cardiovascular events and resulted in a higher reclassification rate of participants.
Review
Chemistry, Medicinal
Felipe Mendes Delpino, Francine Silva dos Santos, Thayna Ramos Flores, Henrique S. Cerqueira, Heitor O. Santos
Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the effects of blueberry and cranberry supplementation on blood pressure in patients with cardiometabolic diseases. The study found that blueberry and/or cranberry supplementation had neutral effects on systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Further high-quality studies are needed to confirm clinical efficacy.
PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Shuaishuai Zhou, Teng Xu, Xu Zhang, Junjie Luo, Peng An, Yongting Luo
Summary: The supplementation of casein hydrolysate can effectively reduce blood pressure without affecting blood lipids or glycemic status.
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
David A. Jaques, Gregoire Wuerzner, Belen Ponte
Summary: Excessive salt intake can lead to high blood pressure and various adverse consequences. Reducing salt consumption presents a potential strategy to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.
Article
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Kelsey B. Bryant, Aditi S. Rao, Laura P. Cohen, Nadine Dandan, Ian M. Kronish, Nikita Barai, Valy Fontil, Yiyi Zhang, Andrew E. Moran, Brandon K. Bellows
Summary: Team-based care with nonphysician titration is an effective and cost-effective strategy for managing blood pressure, leading to superior outcomes compared to other strategies and reducing hypertension-related morbidity and mortality.
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Nian-Jia Deng, Chen-Yang Xian-Yu, Rui-Zheng Han, Cheng-Yang Huang, Yu-Tong Ma, Hui-Jun Li, Teng-Yu Gao, Xin Liu, Chao Zhang
Summary: This network meta-analysis indicates that nifedipine should be recommended as a strategy for blood pressure management in pregnant women with severe hypertension. However, the conventional pharmaceuticals, labetalol and hydralazine, showed limited efficacy, and the instability of hydralazine reducing blood pressure and the high benefit of labetalol with high dosages intakes should be of concern to clinicians.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Marcos D. Polito, Jayme R. Dias, Rafael R. Papst
Summary: Resistance training has positive effects on resting blood pressure and muscle strength changes, with significant benefits for hypertensive individuals, especially those using antihypertensive medication. An 8 to 16-week resistance training program, 2 to 3 days per week, with 8 to 12 non-failure repetitions, is recommended for both users and non-users of antihypertensive medication.
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTENSION
(2021)
Review
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Jason Chung, Cal Robinson, Lauren Sheffield, Prathayini Paramanathan, Andrew Yu, Joycelyne Ewusie, Stephanie Sanger, Mark Mitsnefes, Rulan S. Parekh, Manish D. Sinha, Myanca Rodrigues, Lehana Thabane, Janis Dionne, Rahul Chanchlani
Summary: Masked hypertension (MH), defined as normal office blood pressure but elevated ambulatory blood pressure, increases the risk of subclinical cardiovascular outcomes in children. This study found a high prevalence of MH in children with various comorbidities and demonstrated the association between MH and subclinical cardiovascular outcomes.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Fidelis Atibila, Gill Ten Hoor, Emmanuel Timmy Donkoh, Abdul Iddrisu Wahab, Gerjo Kok
Summary: The study provides a comprehensive overview of the prevalence of hypertension in Ghana, highlighting the persistently high rates of hypertension in the country. It also points out that the urban-rural gap in hypertension prevalence is narrowing, especially among the elderly population. The findings emphasize the need for public health interventions in Ghana to address and reduce hypertension prevalence in rural areas.
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
(2021)
Review
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Owen R. Cowell, Nathan Mistry, Kevin Deighton, Jamie Matu, Alex Griffiths, Anne Marie Minihane, John C. Mathers, Oliver M. Shannon, Mario Siervo
Summary: The study found that Mediterranean diet intervention can effectively reduce blood pressure and is associated with dietary habits. Randomized controlled trials showed that the Mediterranean diet can reduce mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 1.4 mmHg and 1.5 mmHg, respectively.
JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
(2021)
Article
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Mattias Brunstrom, Nawi Ng, John Dahlstrom, Lars H. Lindholm, Margareta Norberg, Lennarth Nystrom, Lars Weinehall, Bo Carlberg
Summary: Education and feedback on hypertension management did not reduce the risk of stroke, but lower all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality were observed in the intervention county.
Editorial Material
Surgery
Elias Johansson, Thomas Gu, Sebastian Castillo, Mattias Brunstrom, Mari Holsti, Anders Wanhainen
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY
(2022)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Linn Skoglund Larsson, Johan Ljungberg, Lars Johansson, Bo Carlberg, Stefan Soderberg, Mattias Brunstrom
Summary: This study aimed to compare mortality in patients with ascending aortic surgery with matched controls. The results showed higher mortality in surgical patients, both in the short-term and long-term postoperative period, with a significant portion of deaths attributed to aortic disease.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY
(2022)
Review
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Mattias Brunstrom, Costas Thomopoulos, Bo Carlberg, Reinhold Kreutz, Giuseppe Mancia
Summary: This review provides an overview of important methodological considerations for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, particularly focusing on the effect of blood pressure-lowering on clinical outcomes. It also discusses the pros and cons of different analytical strategies.
Letter
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Reinhold Kreutz, Mattias Brunstroem, Costas Thomopoulos, Bo Carlberg, Giuseppe Mancia
JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
(2022)
Article
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Helene Rietz, Johanna Pennlert, Peter Nordstrom, Mattias Brunstrom
Summary: The prevalence of hypertension in young adulthood has increased over time, mainly due to isolated systolic hypertension. Resting heart rate, exercise capacity, and BMI are associated with different hypertension subtypes.
JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Anna Rosen, Julia Otten, Andreas Stomby, Simon Vallin, Patrik Wennberg, Mattias Brunstrom
Summary: This study aimed to assess the effect of adding an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to fasting plasma glucose (FPG) in detecting type 2 diabetes (T2D) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) . The results showed that the prevalence of hyperglycaemia on OGTT varied greatly depending on age, sex and risk factor burden. Selective application of OGTT to high-risk groups is recommended to avoid unnecessary testing in the general population.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Lars Lind, Hanna Markstad, Hakan Ahlstrom, Oskar Angeras, John Brandberg, Mattias Brunstrom, Gunnar Engstrom, Jan E. Engvall, Maria J. Eriksson, Mats Eriksson, Anders Gottsater, Emil Hagstrom, Benno Krachler, Erik Lampa, Maria Mannila, Peter M. Nilsson, Fredrik H. Nystrom, Anders Persson, Bjorn Redfors, Anette Sandstro, Raquel Themudo, Sebastian Volz, Johan Arnlov, Carl Johan Ostgren, Goran Bergstrom
Summary: This study investigated whether individuals who are obese but do not have metabolic syndrome (MetS) are associated with increased coronary artery calcium and carotid plaques. The results showed that individuals who are obese but do not have MetS had increased severity of coronary artery stenosis, but no increased occurrence of carotid plaques, further emphasizing that obesity is not a benign condition even in the absence of MetS.
Review
Peripheral Vascular Disease
George Stergiou, Mattias Brunstrom, Thomas MacDonald, Konstantinos G. Kyriakoulis, Michael Bursztyn, Nadia Khan, George Bakris, Anastasios Kollias, Ariadni Menti, Paul Muntner, Marcelo Orias, Neil Poulter, Daichi Shimbo, Bryan Williams, Abiodun Moshood Adeoye, Albertino Damasceno, Lyudmila Korostovtseva, Yan Li, Elizabeth Muxfeldt, Yuqing Zhang, Giuseppe Mancia, Reinhold Kreutz, Maciej Tomaszewski
Summary: Antihypertensive drug therapy is effective for preventing disability and death globally, and complete 24-hour blood pressure control should be the primary goal. While bedtime administration of antihypertensive drugs has been proposed as potentially more effective, high-quality data from well-designed studies are needed to support this claim.
JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Helene Rietz, Johanna Pennlert, Peter Nordstrom, Mattias Brunstrom
Summary: There is a gradual increase in the risk of major cardiovascular events associated with increasing blood pressure levels in late adolescence, starting at a blood pressure level of 120/80 mm Hg.
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Sanna A. Eklund, Hanna Israelsson, Mattias Brunstrom, Karin Forsberg, Jan Malm
Summary: This study found that idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) patients treated with CSF shunting had a shorter life expectancy. Cardiovascular comorbidities and fatal falls contributed to the increased mortality in iNPH, suggesting the importance of treating iNPH in supplementary ways to reduce mortality.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Mattias Brunstrom, Helene Rietz, Lina Ortendahl
JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
(2023)
Letter
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Mattias Brunstrom, Costas Thomopoulos, Bo Carlberg, Reinhold Kreutz, Giuseppe Mancia
LANCET DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Karine Alcala, Daniela Mariosa, Karl Smith-Byrne, Dariush Nasrollahzadeh Nesheli, Robert Carreras-Torres, Eva Ardanaz Aicua, Nicola P. Bondonno, Catalina Bonet, Mattias Brunstrom, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Maria-Dolores Chirlaque, Sofia Christakoudi, Alicia K. Heath, Rudolf Kaaks, Verena Katzke, Vittorio Krogh, Borje Ljungberg, Richard M. Martin, Anne May, Olle Melander, Domenico Palli, Miguel Rodriguez-Barranco, Carlotta Sacerdote, Tanja Stocks, Anne Tjonneland, Ruth C. Travis, Roel Vermeulen, Stephen Chanock, Mark Purdue, Elisabete Weiderpass, David Muller, Paul Brennan, Mattias Johansson
Summary: Diastolic blood pressure (DBP) appears to play an important role in the etiology of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), while the association between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and RCC risk is less clear and seems to be dependent on DBP.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2022)