The illnesses of Herod the Great by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…We review the nature of his illnesses and suggest that he had meningoencephalitis in 59 BC, and that he died primarily of uraemia and hypertensive heart failure, but accept diabetes mellitus as a possible underlying etiological factor. …”
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Congenital Portal Vein Aneurysm Associated with Peliosis Hepatis and Intestinal Lymphangiectasia by Zeynel Mungan, Binnur Pinarbasi, Baris Bakir, Mine Gulluoglu, Bulent Baran, Filiz Akyuz, Kadir Demir, Sabahattin Kaymakoglu

“…Herein, we presented a unique patient with these three rare entities who was admitted to our hospital because of portal hypertensive ascites rich in protein and lymphocyte. …”
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Medicinal, nutritional, and nutraceutical potential of Sparassis crispa s. lat.: a review by Neha Sharma, Ashwani Tapwal, Rachna Verma, Dinesh Kumar, Eugenie Nepovimova, Kamil Kuca

“…The broad range of its reported curative effects include anti-tumour, anti-cancer, immune-enhancing, hematopoietic, anti-angiogenic, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, wound-healing, antioxidant, anti-coagulant, and anti-hypertensive properties. However, most of the studies are conducted on immunomodulatory and anticancer activities. …”
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Scrub Typhus Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia: A Rare Case Report by Maharshi Patel, Sourya Acharya, Samarth Shukla, Shubham Nimkar, Sunil Kumar

“…The patient was chronic alcoholic and hypertensive for one year. After investigation patient was positive for scrub typhus. …”
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Preeclampsia, Natural History, Genes, and miRNAs Associated with the Syndrome by Laura Parada-Niño, Luisa Fernanda Castillo-León, Adrien Morel

“…Preeclampsia (PE) is a hypertensive disease that affects pregnant women after 20 weeks of gestation. …”
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Research Progress on the Preparation, Physiological Activity and Action Mechanism of Plant Derived Bioactive Peptides by Sinan LI, Xi WANG, Yu AN, Jun YU, Kaiyuan XU, Jia WANG, Zhihui ZHANG, Meng WANG, Aqin WANG, Ying WANG, Lu ZHANG

“…In addition to rich nutritional value, they also have various physiological activities such as antioxidant, hypoglycemic, hypertensive and antibacterial. In this paper, the preparation methods, physiological activity and action mechanism of plant-derived BAPs are reviewed, and the existing shortcomings and future development direction are discussed, in order to provide beneficial theoretical support for further research and industrial application of plant-derived BAPs in the field of food and medicine.…”
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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics and outcomes of patients affected by COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit by Priscila da Silva Timoteo, Kleyton Santos de Medeiros, Francis Solange Vieira Tourinho

“…Results: The majority of individuals were men, of white race, with a mean age of 63 years, hypertensive, diabetic, and obese. The average length of hospital stay was 16 days. …”
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Involuntary Vocalisations and a Complex Hyperkinetic Movement Disorder Following Left Side Thalamic Haemorrhage by T. Dietl, D. P. Auer, S. Modell, C. Lechner, C. Trenkwalder

“…We describe a 73 year old woman who suffered from a hypertensive thalamic haemorrhage. MRI revealed that the lesion was predominantly located within the pulvinar, extending to the lateroposterior thalamic nuclei and to the pretectal area with possible involvement of the medial geniculate body. …”
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Using Intravenous Inmunoglobulin in an Atypical Case of Lambert Eaton Síndrome. by Erélido Hernández Valero, Osbert Rodríguez Miranda

“…A 48 year-old hypertensive, smoker patient who started presenting a generalized weakness, pait instability,visual disorders and uncontrolled blood pressure is presented. …”
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Pulmonary tuberculosis in a patient with the tennis racket sign. A case report by Irene Estefania Delgado Pérez, Marileydis Almaguel García, José Sánchez Prieto

“…The 52-years-old patient, discharged as a group III adult, at risk of pulmonary tuberculosis, hypertensive and diabetic, was treated at her family doctor's office due to physical discomfort, productive and persistent cough mainly at night, anorexia and asthenia. …”
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Brain Natriuretic Peptide Production and Secretion in Inflammation by Tsuneo Ogawa, Adolfo J. de Bold

“…Gene expression and secretion of the cardiac polypeptide hormones atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) are simultaneously upregulated in various cardiac disorders such as congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease, and hypertensive heart disease, in which hemodynamic or neuroendocrine changes are key components in the progression of disease. …”
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Angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity and antihypertensive effects of rice peptides by Jingjing Dong, Shen Wang, Xiaoyao Yin, Min Fang, Zhiyong Gong, Yongning Wu

“…With spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar Kyoto (WKY) as the research objects, RP disposable gastric and long-term gastric irrigation experiments were carried out and systolic blood pressure (SBP) was measured. …”
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Metabolic Syndrome, Chronic Kidney, and Cardiovascular Diseases: Role of Adipokines by Manfredi Tesauro, Maria Paola Canale, Giuseppe Rodia, Nicola Di Daniele, Davide Lauro, Angelo Scuteri, Carmine Cardillo

“…Obesity predisposes to diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephrosclerosis, and focal and segmental glomerular sclerosis and represents an independent risk factor for the development and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). …”
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Sociodemographic index–age differences in the global prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, 1990–2019: a population-based study by Xunliang Li, Channa Zhao, Mengqian Liu, Wenman Zhao, Haifeng Pan, Deguang Wang

“…Type-specific CVDs such as rheumatic heart disease, other cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, non-rheumatic valvular heart disease, and hypertensive heart disease showed increased age-standardized prevalence rates from 1990 to 2019. …”
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SIADH, a Rare Complication Postcarotid Endarterectomy – Case Report and Review of Literature by Kovidh Chittibomma, Jithin Jagan Sebastian, Sairam Subramanian

“…We describe the case of an 83-year-old hypertensive who developed severe hyponatremia after right CEA for symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. …”
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A rare case of bladder paraganglioma treated successfully with robotic partial cystectomy by Kalyan M Shekhda, Jessal M Palan, Christo B Albor, Simon Wan, Teng-Teng Chung

“…There is a risk of an intraoperative hypertensive crisis if not diagnosed or identified before surgical removal. …”
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Dejerine-Roussy Syndrome: Understanding Chronic Thalamic Pain by Saket S Toshniwal, Jiwan Kinkar, Yatika Chadha, Sourya Acharya, Sunil Kumar

“…A 50-year-old male, known to be hypertensive and non compliant with medications, with a significant past history of stroke three months ago, presented to the hospital with chief complaints of persistent burning sensations in his left arm and leg, as well as his entire face. …”
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Height Constitutes an Important Predictor of Mortality in End-Stage Renal Disease by Tsuneo Takenaka, Takahiko Sato, Hitoshi Hoshi, Nobutaka Kato, Keita Sueyoshi, Masahiro Tsuda, Yusuke Watanabe, Hiroshi Takane, Yoichi Ohno, Hiromichi Suzuki

“…Methods. Fifty two hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetic nephropathy receiving hemodialysis and 52 patients with nondiabetic nephropathy were enrolled. …”
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Metal mixtures exposure with risk of elevated serum neurofilament light chain concentrations in U.S. general adults, NHANES 2013–2014 by Yan Wang, Keyi Zhang, Hao Li, Si Liu, Linyao Ying, Lu Xiang, Na Liang, Liangkai Chen, Lin Xiao, Gang Luo

“…Notably, stronger risk associations were observed among elderly, males, smokers, and hypertensive individuals. The results could be significant for detecting and tracking the beginning of neurodegenerative diseases early, as well as helping to pinpoint individuals at high risk.…”
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Stimulation of Alpha1-Adrenergic Receptor Ameliorates Cellular Functions of Multiorgans beyond Vasomotion through PPARδ by Yong-Jik Lee, Hyun Soo Kim, Hong Seog Seo, Jin Oh Na, You-Na Jang, Yoon-Mi Han, Hyun-Min Kim

“…All of those effects occurred around 3 h (and peaked 6 h) after midodrine treatment. In spontaneously hypertensive rats, α1-adrenergic receptor stimulation affected mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and ATP production by activating PPARδ, AMPK, and PGC-1α and the relevant biologic functions of multiple organs, suggesting organ crosstalk. …”
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