Vivencio Barrios

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..To assess the clinical characteristics of patients with atrial fibrillation in the primary care setting...

..The odds ratio of having high PP in women with MetS vs no MetS was 3.13 and in men was 1.9 (both P<.01)...

..03) and diabetes control (38.6% vs. 27.6% vs. 22.2%, P = 0.023). In conclusion, in patients with hypertension and chronic ischemic heart disease, as BMI increases, the clinical profile worsens as well as risk factors control rates...

..Aliskiren is a novel direct renin inhibitor with promising results. In this manuscript the current evidence about aliskiren, alone or in combination, is analyzed...

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..5 mg is the latest combination of an angiotensin receptor blocker and a diuretic approved for treatment of hypertension. The aim of this manuscript is to update the published data about the efficacy and safety of this fixed combination...

..Although in daily clinical practice the use of both product criteria seemed clearly preferable to voltage for assessment of ECG-LVH, the CorP appeared to be markedly more useful in women and SokP in men...

..g. Cornell voltage-duration product; CorP), is a good marker of LVH and the current study was designed to determine the prevalence of LVH in patients with essential hypertension treated in general practice...

..In the present manuscript, the current data about the treatment of patients with hypertension and diabetes are reviewed...

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..This study examined the influence of diabetes on left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) detected by different electrocardiographic (ECG) criteria and its changes induced by a 12-month candesartan-based regimen...

..BP and LDL-C control rates, although poor in both groups, were better in men (44.9% vs 30.5%, P<.001 and 33.0% vs 25.0%, P<.001, respectively). Stress testing and coronary angiography were more frequently performed in men...

..The aim of this manuscript is to update the published data about the efficacy and safety of this fixed combination...

..This analysis assessed goal rate achievement in hypertensive patients receiving olmesartan-based treatment in the OLMEBEST study...

..The present study was designed to assess the influence of renal function on the clinical profile and management of the hypertensive outpatients with chronic ischemic heart disease...

..In this paper, the efficacy and safety of rosuvastatin along the cardiovascular continuum is reviewed...

..The CINHTIA study is a cross-sectional and multicentre survey designed to assess the clinical management of the hypertensive outpatients with chronic ischemic heart disease attended by cardiologists...

..The aim of the SARA study was to investigate the effect of an ARB on electrocardiographic LVH (ECG-LVH) in a hypertensive outpatient population attending clinical practice...

..5% for non-metabolic syndrome patients (P<.0001). These findings demonstrate that the metabolic syndrome is common in patients with hypertension and that it is generally poorly diagnosed and treated by primary care physicians...

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..To assess the predictive value of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in the diagnosis of heart failure (HF) in a primary-care setting in Spain...

..Less than 85% of physicians considered the efficacy and tolerability of combined therapy as 'good' or 'very good' but 93% of the patients were 'satisfied' or 'very satisfied' with combined therapy...

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..Analyze the results concerning the heart failure population of CARDIOTENS 99, a cross-sectional study of hypertension associated with cardiovascular disease carried out on 32,051 patients seen in Cardiology and Primary Care consultations...

..In this article, available evidence regarding diltiazem in the treatment of hypertension and ischemic heart disease is updated...

..This effect may be mediated by an NO-dependent mechanism, probably through the protective effect of NAC on NO oxidation...

..To obtain data on local and systemic tolerability of three different doses (5 mg/24 h, 10 mg/24 h, and 15 mg/24 h) of a new model of nitroglycerin patch (Trinipatch, Sanofi-Synthelabo, S. A.) in patients with chronic stable angina...

..With the aim to determine the efficacy and tolerability of this drug in usual clinical practice we performed the ELYPSE trial...

..However, new information of the already finished studies and some still on-going clinical trials may help us to know the effects of the ARB II in this disease more and better...

..The BP and LDL-C control rates in the hypertensive population attended to daily in primary care settings in Spain are low...

..Lercanidipine was effective and well-tolerated in patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension in the daily practice. The effectiveness and safety of the drug were independent of the degree of cardiovascular risk...

..Data show that both, ACEIs and ARBs, appear effective to prevent AF. However, a lack of prospective randomized double-blind trials data limits their application in absence of any other indication...

..GPs and specialists tend to underestimate the cardiovascular risk in daily clinical practice, mainly in very high-risk patients...

..Thus, a candesartan-based regimen for six months significantly reduced echocardiographic LVH in hypertensive patients in general practice. The drug was very well tolerated and no serious adverse events were reported...

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..This study has aimed to assess the impact of the computerized interpretation of the ECG on the diagnosis of LVH in the practical clinical setting...

..To determine the proportion and clinical features of unrecognized heart failure (HF) in hypertensive women ≥65 years attended in Spain...

..This study was aimed to evaluate the differences according to age in the clinical profile and management of outpatients with chronic ischemic heart disease attended by cardiologists in Spain...

..8% vs. 3.6%). In conclusion, treatment with lercanidipine at high doses is associated with a lower rate of adverse events related to vasodilation compared to high doses of amlodipine or nifedipine GITS in clinical practice...

..5% (P=.01). The relative risk reduction of ECG-LVH was higher in patients with MS according to CorV and SokP criteria (P<.01)...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate, non-invasively, the effect of candesartan on coronary microvascular function in hypertensive patients...

..Substituting part of the dose of l-thyroxine with small but supraphysiologic doses of liothyronine in hypothyroid patients has yielded conflicting results...

..The combinations of the Cornell product with the Sokolow voltage or with the Sokolow product appear to be the most efficient options...

..In this article, available evidence about the efficacy and tolerability of the triple fixed combined therapy valsartan-amlodipine-hydrochlorothiazide for the treatment of hypertension is updated...

..7-52.5). CONCLUSIONS: The control of the CVRF considered in primary care attended population is insufficient. Hardly one of each 2 patients with HT, DM2 and HC is under control. The overweight and sedentarism control is still poorer...

..In this article the potential explanations of these results are discussed...

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..During recent years, numerous trials to analyze the efficacy and tolerability of high doses of statins have been published. This paper updates the published data on the safety of statins at high doses...

..More complex and intensive programs are needed for this type of prevention...

..Moreover, this agent reduces plasma renin activity, which in theory could have additional clinical benefits. However, clinical trials analyzing the effects of aliskiren on mortality are still ongoing...

..The aim of this review is to update information on the prevention of thromboembolic events in patients with AF and how dabigatran may change daily clinical practice...

..Although electrocardiography is the technique most often recommended in the diagnosis of hypertrophy, its diagnostic accuracy is hampered in the presence of a left bundle branch block...

..In the present study, available evidence about the efficacy and tolerability of combined therapy for the treatment of hypertension is updated...

..Differences between combination therapies have implications for which patients may be best suited to particular interventions, and further studies are required to fully ascertain this potential...

..This study investigated how the levels of adiponectin and other emerging risk factors are related to CV events in the Spanish population...

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..The aim of this study was to use this noninvasive technique to evaluate the effect of atorvastatin on peripheral endothelial function and on the coronary microvasculature in patients with dyslipidemia...

..The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic value of electrocardiography in hemodynamically stable patients with a diagnosis of acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE)...

..Good blood pressure control was considered <140/90 mmHg (<130/80 mmHg for diabetics) and LDL-c according to the established by ATP-III for every risk group...

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..The aim of this manuscript is to update the published data on the efficacy and safety of this fixed combination...

..The systematic therapeutic use of drug(s) provided with beneficial renal effects, to treat arterial hypertension or myocardial ischemia, may contribute to delay of, or prevent the development of HF...

..Those with diabetes or left ventricular hypertrophy seem to benefit from pharmacological block of the renin-angiotensin system, and patients with heart failure from combined therapy with ACE inhibitors plus beta-blockers...

..This study aimed to determine the degree of blood pressure (BP) control in Spanish hypertensive patients attended in primary care (PC) and to determine the factors associated with poor BP control...

..The aim of this study was to determine undetected CKD prevalence in dyslipidemic population measuring creatinine clearance according to the Cockcroft-Gault equation corrected for surface area...