Evolution of diagnostic criteria for primary aldosteronism: why is it more common in "drug-resistant" hypertension today?Clarence E Grim
Shared Care Research, Education and Consulting, Inc, 2821 N 4th Street, Suite 410, Department 71, Milwaukee, WI 53212, USA
Curr Hypertens Rep 6:485-92. 2004
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- Salt, slavery and survival- hypertension in the African diaspora
Clarence E Grim
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
Epidemiology 14:120-2; discussion 124-6. 2003
- The HoMedics BPA-200 and BPA-300 home blood pressure devices fail the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol and cannot be recommended for patient use
Clarence E Grim
Medical College of Wisconsin and High Blood Pressure Consulting, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
Blood Press Monit 13:227-9. 2008
..Both failed and we believe it is important to get this into the literature quickly to protect patients and practitioners...
- Omron HEM-711 DLX home Blood pressure monitor passes the European Society of Hypertension International Validation Protocol
Clarence E Grim
Medical College of Wisconsin and High Blood Pressure Consulting, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
Blood Press Monit 13:225-6. 2008
..9+/-5.2 (SD) (range: -12 to 10 mmHg)/-0.8+/-5.6 (-19 to 8). It can be recommended for use by patients. With all automatic devices it is, however, important to validate its accuracy in each individual patient who uses it...
- Cardiovascular correlates of insulin resistance in normotensive and hypertensive African Americans
Srividya Kidambi
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Metabolism 60:835-42. 2011
..These observations suggest that an exclusive focus on effects of IR on DM or BP may ignore independent pathophysiologic contributions of IR to cardiovascular disease...
- Aldosterone contributes to blood pressure variance and to likelihood of hypertension in normal-weight and overweight African Americans
Srividya Kidambi
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Am J Hypertens 22:1303-8. 2009
..We have previously reported that both plasma aldosterone (PA) and body mass index (BMI) are higher in hypertensive than in normotensive AAs. This study evaluates the relative contributions of adiposity and PA to hypertension in AAs...
- Hyperaldosteronism and hypertension: ethnic differences
Clarence E Grim
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Hypertension 45:766-72. 2005
..These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that aldosterone-induced volume expansion is an important contributor to hypertension, especially in blacks...
- Hypertension, insulin resistance, and aldosterone: sex-specific relationships
Srividya Kidambi
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 11:130-7. 2009
..The association of IR with both hypertension and PA in men, but not in women, may contribute to the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease in African American men...
- Altered relationship of blood pressure to adiposity in hypertension
Theodore A Kotchen
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Am J Hypertens 21:284-9. 2008
..We evaluated the relationship of adiposity to blood pressure in normotensive and untreated hypertensive African Americans-an ethnic group with a high prevalence of hypertension and obesity...
- Aldosterone and alterations of hypertension-related vascular function in African Americans
Theodore A Kotchen
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Am J Hypertens 22:319-24. 2009
..This study evaluates the hypothesis that hypertension and hypertension-related alterations of peripheral vascular and renal vascular function are associated with aldosterone...
- Association of adrenal steroids with hypertension and the metabolic syndrome in blacks
Srividya Kidambi
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Hypertension 49:704-11. 2007
..In addition, we speculate that relatively high aldosterone and low PRA in these hypertensive individuals may reflect a mild variant of primary aldosteronism...
- The Omron Elite 7300W home blood pressure monitor passes the European Society of Hypertension International Validation Protocol for women and men
Clarence E Grim
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211, USA
Blood Press Monit 14:87-90. 2009
..To test the accuracy of the Omron Elite 7300W home blood pressure monitor using the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Protocol...
- Characteristics of inner-city African-Americans with uncontrolled hypertension
Gerard Coly
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
J Am Soc Hypertens 2:366-71. 2008
..Strategies to improve hypertension control should be directed to patients and to health care providers...
- Cocaine use in inner city african american research volunteers
Benjamin W Weston
From the Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI
J Addict Med 3:83-8. 2009
..To determine the prevalence of cocaine use and associated risk factors in African Americans volunteering as research subjects for a hypertension study...
- Identification of hypertension-related QTLs in African American sib pairs
Theodore A Kotchen
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
Hypertension 40:634-9. 2002
..Focusing on hypertension-related phenotypes is a promising approach for identifying the genetic determinants of hypertension...
- The Republic of Georgia High Blood Pressure Control Program
Vakhtang Y Barbakadze
Union of Laboratory Diagnostic, National Center of Therapy, Tbilisi, Georgia
Ethn Dis 16:S2-61-5. 2006
..52% of adults have uncontrolled hypertension in the Republic of Georgia. We incorporated a blood pressure control program into an existing primary healthcare system in an attempt to improve the rate of blood pressure control...
- Miscuffing: a problem with new guidelines
L Michael Prisant
Hypertension 48:e4. 2006
- Genetic influences on the increase in blood pressure with age in normotensive subjects in Barbados
Miguel T Robinson
Department of Psychiatry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Ethn Dis 14:57-63. 2004
..In normotensive subjects of African descent living in Barbados, the increase in blood pressure with age is significantly influenced by both nuclear and mitochondrial genotypes that are more common in African derived populations...
- Effects of omapatrilat on the renin-angiotensin system in salt-sensitive hypertension
Carlos M Ferrario
Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Am J Hypertens 15:557-64. 2002
..We suggest that Ang-(1-7) may be a component of the mechanisms by which omapatrilat induces an antihypertensive response in salt sensitive hypertension...
