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OBJECTIVE: The relationship between obesity and essential hypertension is well known. The aim of our study was to evaluate ambulatory blood pressure of obese and non-obese patients diagnosed with hypertension, and to inv...

OBJECTIVE: Hypertension and obesity threaten public health. Our aim was to study the prevalence of obesity and hypertension in our community and their relation to feeding habits. MATERIAL and METHODS: This was a cross...

One of the postoperative vascular complications in renal transplantation is stenosis of the transplant renal artery. Stenosis of the iliac segment proximal to the transplant renal artery (Prox-TRAS) is an uncommon cause ...

Fabry disease is an x-linked recessive metabolic storage disorder due to the deficiency of lysosomal α-galactosidase A, and the subsequent accumulation of glycosphingolipids, throughout the body. Patients usually presen...

Hypertension is an important public health problem affecting more than 1 billion people all over the world. Approximately one quarter of adult world and one third of adult Turkish population are living with this disease....

OBJECTIVE: Cardiac autonomic dysfunction (COD) is one of the important factors implicated in the pathogenesis of primary hypertension (HT). Heart rate variability (HRV) measurement has been used widely to determine the C...

Over the last decade there has been an increased awareness of renovascular disease as a potentially correctable cause of hypertension and renal insufficiency. Renal artery stenosis is most commonly due to either atherosc...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the office and home blood pressure measurements with 24 hours ambulatory blood pressure measurements, and to decide which method could be used for the diagnosis of hyperten...

Essential hypertension (HT) leads to certain functional and structural chances in kidney that possible to detect at early stage. To investigate these effects, our study performed on 209 HT patients with m an age 48.2±9 ...

Disorders of the vessels, that cause organ demage in Essential Hypertension (HT), may returned at early stage. In this study, vascular disorders were evaluated in 225 HT patients with a mean age of 48.1±8.6 (%77.3 of th...

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine home application by hemodialysis patients for hypertension management. MATERIAL and METHODS: The population of the descriptive study included a total of 279 patients who were t...

Glucose intolerance, hyperinsulinemia, hyperlipidemia accompanied with essantial hypertension (HT) increase atherosclerosis. In order to evaluate metabolic status, in 209 non-complicated HT patients, with mean blood pres...

Study was performed on 168 patients with essential hypertension (HT). Their SBP, DBP were 161,4±16 and 100,8±8 mmHg. Mean age was 47,6±9 years and HT duration was 46,8±4 months. 88 healthy subjects with mean age 46,4...

Renal failure due to primary hypertension (HT) can be declined with precautions at early stages. In our study, glomerulo-tubular vascular function markers of 245 HT patients without end-organ damage have a mean age of 48...

Primary hyperparathyroidism is an endocrinological disorder characterized by secretion of parathormone and hypercalcemia. More than 80% of the cases are asymptomatic and are diagnosed during differential diagnosis of hyp...

Objective: Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring is confronted with different clinical patterns due to diurnal changes. Rise of BP at night is known as reverse dipper, whereas it is expected to decrease at night phys...

Renovascular hypertension is one of the important causes of secondary hypertension in children and can be caused by many different diseases, with the most common being fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) and Takayasu arteritis...

The effect of recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEpo) on whole blood viscosity regarding its relation with hypertension was investigated in this study. 15 patients with mean hemoglobin level of less than 9 gr/dl and w...

İn primary hypertension (HT), organs are damaged by vascular disturbance. The kidney is a major end organ in HT. In antihypertensive theraphy; beside the aim of lowering the blood pressure, use of preparations with orga...

The purpose of this study was to compare the predictive value of the captopril test Thirty patients who remained hypertensive with mild or moderate hypertension after 2-3 weeks of low sodium diet were underwent to the ca...

The risk of hypertension induced renal damage sufficient to result in ESRD is a broad spectrum problem. The risk is relatively small in the general population with essential hypertension in the absence of malignant nephr...

OBJECTIVE: Renovascular hypertension (RVH) is the most common yet correctable cause of secondary hypertension if diagnosed early. There are many clinical signs that can suggest RVH. The aim of this study was to find whic...

In this study, the aim is to observe the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and endothelium after phlebotomy in healthy blood donors. Healthy blood donors were divided into two subgroups according to the presence of hyperten...