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Medical therapy of chronic aortic regurgitation that is stable and asymptomatic involves the use of vasodilators. [1] Trials have shown a short-term benefit in the use of ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor antagonists , nifedipine , and hydralazine in improving left ventricular wall stress, ejection fraction, and mass. [ 5 ]
Hypertensive heart disease includes a number of complications of high blood pressure that affect the heart.While there are several definitions of hypertensive heart disease in the medical literature, [1] [2] [3] the term is most widely used in the context of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding categories.
Exercise hypertension is an excessive rise in blood pressure during exercise. Many of those with exercise hypertension have spikes in systolic pressure to 250 mmHg or greater. A rise in systolic blood pressure to over 200 mmHg when exercising at 100 W is pathological and a rise in pressure over 220 mmHg needs to be controlled by the appropriate ...
Exercise intolerance is a condition of inability or decreased ability to perform physical exercise at the normally expected level or duration for people of that age, size, sex, and muscle mass. [1] It also includes experiences of unusually severe post-exercise pain, fatigue, nausea, vomiting or other negative effects.
Other symptoms accompanying a hypertensive crisis may include visual deterioration due to retinopathy, breathlessness due to heart failure, or a general feeling of malaise due to kidney failure. [3] Most people with a hypertensive crisis are known to have elevated blood pressure, but additional triggers may have led to a sudden rise. [4]
High blood pressure – Hypertension or elevated blood pressure can increase a person's risk of developing PAD. Similarly to PAD, there is a known association between high blood pressure and heart attacks, strokes, and abdominal aortic aneurysms. High blood pressure increases the risk of intermittent claudication, the most common symptom of PAD ...
In recent years, several studies have found that excessive long-term sports activity can cause exercise-induced arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (EIARVC). [33] [34] For some athletes ARVC might develop due to high-endurance exercise and it most often develops without an underlying desmosomal abnormalities.
The authors of the current study note that people with high blood pressure are at a higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and mild cognitive impairment.