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Stressful life events and current psychological distress are associated with self-reported hypertension but not with true hypertension: results from a cross-sectional population-based studyFelipe Sparrenberger
Department of Medicine, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau, Brazil
BMC Public Health 8:357. 2008..The evidence linking stress to hypertension has been scarcely documented in population-based studies...
Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional studySandra C Fuchs
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
BMC Public Health 2:1. 2002..This method may be considered for evaluation of race in epidemiological surveys, since it is less time-consuming than the evaluation by interviewers...- Association between different measurements of blood pressure variability by ABP monitoring and ankle-brachial indexEstefânia Wittke
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 10:55. 2010..We evaluated the association between three different methods to estimate BP variability by ABPM and the ankle brachial index (ABI)... 
Is hypertensive response in treadmill testing better identified with correction for working capacity? A study with clinical, echocardiographic and ambulatory blood pressure correlatesJoão Otavio Zanettini
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, UFRGS, Brazil
Blood Press 13:225-9. 2004..These differences were stronger when the variation of blood pressure during exercise was corrected by the amount of work performed...- [Therapeutics in clinical cardiovascular practice. Experiences and evidence]Flavio Danni Fuchs
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS
Arq Bras Cardiol 85:72-5. 2005 - Anthropometric indices and the incidence of hypertension: a comparative analysisFlavio D Fuchs
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Obes Res 13:1515-7. 2005..To investigate the association between several anthropometric measurements of obesity with the incidence of hypertension... - What is next when the first blood pressure-lowering drug is not sufficient?Flavio D Fuchs
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Ramiro Barcelos, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 5:435-9. 2007..For now, in the absence of a sound basis for choosing the second blood pressure-lowering agent, the classical stepped-care approach recommended by the first National High Blood Pressure Education Program may still be a valid guideline... - A comparison between diuretics and angiotensin-receptor blocker agents in patients with stage I hypertension (PREVER-treatment trial): study protocol for a randomized double-blind controlled trialFlavio D Fuchs
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Trials 12:53. 2011..Diuretics are as efficacious as other agents, are well tolerated, have longer duration of action and low cost, but have been scarcely compared with ARBs. A study comparing diuretic and ARB is therefore warranted... - Is the cardioprotective effect of alcohol real?Flavio D Fuchs
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, 90035 903, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Alcohol 41:399-402. 2007..In view of the potential risks of alcohol, a more cautious view about the beneficial effects of alcoholic beverages is warranted... - The corporate bias and the molding of prescription practices: the case of hypertensionF D Fuchs
Servico de Cardiologia, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
Braz J Med Biol Res 42:224-8. 2009..This reality should be modified immediately, and a greater independence of the academy from the pharmaceutical industry is necessary... 
Diuretics: still essential drugs for the management of hypertensionFlavio Danni Fuchs
Servico de Cardiologia, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, 90 035 903, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 7:591-8. 2009..Diuretics are still essential drugs for hypertension management, but diuretics with higher potency and duration of action, such as chlorthalidone, should be preferred...- Prehypertension: the rationale for early drug therapyFlavio Danni Fuchs
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Servico de Cardiologia, UFRGS, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil
Cardiovasc Ther 28:339-43. 2010..In the meantime, it is worthy to present the option to start low doses of BP agents for individuals with prehypertension without co-morbidities who do not respond to the prescription of lifestyle modification... - Prevention of hypertension in patients with pre-hypertension: protocol for the PREVER-prevention trialFlavio D Fuchs
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Trials 12:65. 2011..The PREVER-prevention trial aims to investigate the efficacy, safety and feasibility of a population-based intervention to prevent the incidence of hypertension and the development of target-organ damage... - Blood pressure-lowering drugs: essential therapy for some patients with normal blood pressureFlavio D Fuchs
Servico de Cardiologia, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, 90 035 003, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 2:771-5. 2004..The drugs that have mainly been tested in such conditions are the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, but their efficacy probably derives from their blood pressure-lowering effect, instead of a primary antiatherosclerotic effect... - Association between alcoholic beverage consumption and incidence of coronary heart disease in whites and blacks: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities StudyFlavio D Fuchs
Division of Cardiology, Clinical Hospital of Porto Alegre, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Ramiro Barcelos 2350, Porto Alegre 90035903, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Am J Epidemiol 160:466-74. 2004..61, 95% CI: 1.11, 6.17). The contrasting findings in Whites and Black men in this cohort raise the question of whether the cardioprotective effect of alcohol is real or may be confounded by lifestyle characteristics of drinkers... - Alcohol consumption and the incidence of hypertension: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities StudyF D Fuchs
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Hypertension 37:1242-50. 2001..The consumption of low to moderate amounts of alcohol also appears to be associated with a higher risk of hypertension in black men... - Moyamoya disease associated with renovascular disease in a young African-Brazilian patientF D Fuchs
Divisions of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
J Hum Hypertens 15:499-501. 2001..In conclusion, we described the first case of Moyamoya disease with concomitant renovascular disease in a young adult of African origin, an association that may be more frequent than usually suspected in clinical practice... - Diuretics: drugs of choice for the initial management of patients with hypertensionFlavio D Fuchs
Unit of Hypertension, Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 1:35-41. 2003..These findings, together with other very practical reasons, such as easy administration, few side effects and low cost, demonstrate that diuretics are the first option for drug management of hypertension... - Absence of association between hypertension and epistaxis: a population-based studyFlavio D Fuchs
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Blood Press 12:145-8. 2003..In conclusion, we demonstrated that hypertension is not associated with history of epistaxis in the adulthood in free-living individuals... - Headache is not more frequent among patients with moderate to severe hypertensionF D Fuchs
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
J Hum Hypertens 17:787-90. 2003..The novel finding of an inverse association between pulse pressure and headache should be addressed in further investigations... - Incidence of hypertension by alcohol consumption: is it modified by race?André Avelino Steffens
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
J Hypertens 24:1489-92. 2006..To investigate the influence of race, binge drinking and alcohol addiction on the association between consumption of alcoholic beverages and incidence of hypertension... - Proof of concept in cardiovascular risk: the paradoxical findings in blood pressure and lipid abnormalitiesFlavio Danni Fuchs
Division of Cardiology and Postgraduate Studies Program in Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Vasc Health Risk Manag 8:437-42. 2012..The adverse effects of these drugs may nullify their beneficial effects over lipoproteins and abnormalities of lipoproteins may only be surrogate markers of the underlying real risks... - Obstructive sleep apnea and resistant hypertension: a case-control studySandro Cadaval Goncalves
Division of Cardiology and Postgraduate Program in Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Chest 132:1858-62. 2007..Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) has been linked to resistant hypertension, but the magnitude of this association and its independence of confounding have not been established... - Prevalence of and risk factors for HIV infection in individuals testing for HIV at counseling centers in BrazilNêmora Tregnago Barcellos
Política Estadual de Controle de DST AIDS, Secretaria da Saude, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Sex Transm Dis 30:166-73. 2003..Risk factors for HIV infection have been scarcely studied in developing countries... - Correction of the hypertensive response in the treadmill testing by the work performance improves the prediction of hypertension by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and incidence of cardiac abnormalities by echocardiography: results of an eight year fJoão Otavio Zanettini
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, UFRGS, Brazil
Int J Cardiol 141:243-9. 2010..We investigated the association of different definitions of HR with incidence of hypertension by ABPM and development of cardiac structural abnormalities... - Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and its outcomes with home portable monitoringAna Claudia Tonelli de Oliveira
Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Avenida Paulo Gama 110 Reitoria, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 90040 060
Chest 135:330-6. 2009..The objective of the present study was to evaluate the accuracy of PM performed at home to diagnose OSAS and its outcomes after first validating PM in the laboratory setting by comparing it to polysomnography (PSG)... - Prevalence of resistant hypertension in non-elderly adults: prospective study in a clinical settingDaniela Massierer
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Arq Bras Cardiol 99:630-5. 2012..In face of variable definitions and sampling criteria, the real prevalence of resistant hypertension in a clinical setting is unknown... - Oral contraceptives: a risk factor for uncontrolled blood pressure among hypertensive womenJaqueline Neves Lubianca
Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Médicas Clínica Médica, 2 degrees andar Faculde de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul UFRGS, Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2400, CEP 90035 003, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Contraception 67:19-24. 2003..It is concluded that hypertensive women using OC present a significant increase in DBP and poor blood pressure control, independent of age, weight and antihypertensive drug treatment... - Does the blood pressure-lowering effect of statins contribute to their beneficial cardiovascular effects?Vicente Correa
Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, 90035 903, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 8:775-9. 2010.... - Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the very elderly: results of a cohort study in a city in southern BrazilMaria Helena Werle
Post Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 18:369-77. 2011..Risk factors for cardiovascular mortality have barely been investigated in very elderly persons and there may be differences compared with younger individuals... - Clustering of risk factors for cardiovascular disease among women in Southern Brazil: a population-based studySandra Costa Fuchs
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
Cad Saude Publica 24:S285-93. 2008..5 (95%CI: 3.0-24.5). Clustering of cardiovascular risk factors is strongly associated with self-reported cardiovascular disease among women... - Shift work is not associated with high blood pressure or prevalence of hypertensionCarla Sfreddo
Postgraduate Program in Medical Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
PLoS ONE 5:e15250. 2010..Working mostly at night has been suggested to be associated with upset of chronobiological rhythms and high blood pressure, but the evidence from epidemiological studies is weak... - The efficacy of herbal medicines in clinical models: the case of jambolanClaudio Coimbra Teixeira
Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, ICBS, Rua Sarmento Leite, 550, CEP 90046 900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
J Ethnopharmacol 108:16-9. 2006..This approach may also be applicable to other popular medicines employed in the management of diabetes and other diseases... - The effect of increasing doses of levodopa on children with strabismic amblyopiaE Procianoy
Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
J AAPOS 3:337-40. 1999..The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy and tolerance of a levodopa/carbidopa combination and to test its dose-effect response when combined with occlusion therapy for children with amblyopia... - The efficacy of folk medicines in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus: results of a randomized controlled trial of Syzygium cumini (L.) SkeelsC C Teixeira
Department of Pharmacology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Sarmento Leite 500, CEP 90046 900, Porto Alegre, Brazil
J Clin Pharm Ther 31:1-5. 2006..To investigate whether a tea prepared from leaves of jambolan, Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels, has an antihyperglycaemic effect in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus... - Association between pregnancy-related hypertension and severity of hypertensionL B Moreira
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
J Hum Hypertens 23:415-9. 2009..In conclusion, pregnancy-related hypertension is frequent in women referred to a hypertension clinic, and is associated with severe hypertension but not with evidence of end-organ damage... - Stopping oral contraceptives: an effective blood pressure-lowering intervention in women with hypertensionJ N Lubianca
, , Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
J Hum Hypertens 19:451-5. 2005..The odds ratio (adjusted) for having a decrease of at least 20 mmHg in SBP or 10 mmHg in DBP was 0.28 (95% CI 0.08-0.90) in patients who stopped OC. Stopping OC is an effective antihypertensive intervention in a clinical setting... - Dose-dependent biphasic effect of ethanol on 24-h blood pressure in normotensive subjectsG A Rosito
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, , RS, Brazil
Am J Hypertens 12:236-40. 1999..The higher prevalence of hypertension in alcohol abusers seen in epidemiological surveys may be, in part, a result of measurements done in the period of transiently increased blood pressure during ethanol washout... - Association between hypertension and musculoskeletal complaints: a population-based studyAlessandra Cristina Kerkhoff
Postgraduate Studies Program in Cardiology, Universidade Federal do Rio, Grande do Sul, Brazil
J Hypertens 30:2112-7. 2012..To investigate the association between hypertension and musculoskeletal complaints among men and women selected by a population-based sample... - Obstructive sleep apnea, detected by the Berlin Questionnaire: an associated risk factor for coronary artery diseaseDaniela Massierer
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
Cad Saude Publica 28:1530-8. 2012..001). In conclusion, OSA identified by the BQ greatly increases the risks of coronary artery disease in patients having significant coronary artery lesions indicated by anangiogram, particularly in younger individuals and in women... - Incidence of hypertension in Porto Alegre, Brazil: a population-based studyL B Moreira
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, , Porto Alegre, Brazil
J Hum Hypertens 22:48-50. 2008 - Establishing the prevalence of hypertension. Influence of sampling criteriaS C Fuchs
, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Arq Bras Cardiol 76:445-52. 2001.... - Absence of association between depression and hypertension: results of a prospectively designed population-based studyM Wiehe
Division of Cardiology, , Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
J Hum Hypertens 20:434-9. 2006..15; 95% CI:0.75-1.76). Hypertension and depression were not associated in this free-living population of adults, suggesting that their concomitant occurrence in clinical practice may be ascribed to chance... - The efficacy of the combination of sertraline with buspirone for smoking cessation. A randomized clinical trial in nondepressed smokersJorge Luiz Carrão
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Passo Fundo, Marcelino Ramos 111 401, Passo Fundo, RS 99010 160, Brazil
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 257:383-8. 2007..7% vs. 95.5% p = 0.37). The combination of sertraline and buspirone with cognitive-behavioral therapy was more effective than placebo and cognitive-behavioral therapy to promote smoking cessation... - Characteristics associated with the dropout of hypertensive patients followed up in an outpatient referral clinicR G Busnello
, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 90460-040, Brazil
Arq Bras Cardiol 76:349-54. 2001..We think that measures assuring adherence to treatment should be directed to this group of patients... - Risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection in individuals infected with the HIVF H Wolff
Post Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Dig Liver Dis 40:460-7. 2008..Except for injecting drug use, other routes of transmission for hepatitis C virus among HIV-AIDS patients have not been consistently described, and risk estimates are often not adjusted for confounding factors... - Hypertensive retinopathy and incident coronary heart disease in high risk menB B Duncan
Social Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS Brazil
Br J Ophthalmol 86:1002-6. 2002..The data support the concept that retinal microvascular changes are markers of blood pressure damage and may be useful in risk stratification and in the tailoring of hypertension treatment decisions... - Diurnal variation of vascular diameter and reactivity in healthy young menP F D Bau
Departamento de Clinica Medica, Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brasil
Braz J Med Biol Res 41:500-3. 2008....