Rana Hanan1*, Muhammad Waqar Shafi1, Sumair Anwar2 and Numrah Nawaz1
...lobe. Both hyper and pre-hypertension affect all ages and professions, and are as common as flu infections by affecting 1 in every 5 persons. In order to determine frequency of hypertension and pre-hypertension among medical students and their association with various variable and fixed risk factors, this study was designed. The cross sectional study of 4 months was carried out on the stud...
Rana Khurram Aftab1*, Farhat Ijaz2, Samia Jawed3
...ship between obesity and hypertension has long been recognized. Overweight and obesity are disorders of balance of energy affecting people of various ethnic groups, age and socio–economic statuses. It has been found that obesity is closely associated and correlated with hypertension. Preventive strategies for obesity may offer a cost-effective approach towards lowering blood pressure.
Objectives: To ...
Hina Abrar1,2, S.N.H. Naqvi1,*, Muhammad Rashid Ahmed3, Asma Basharat Ali3 and Hina Yasin1,2
...es including arrhythmia, hypertension, portal hypertension and oesophageal varices. The study was undertaken in rabbits to investigate the effect of propranolol to reduce hepatoxicity of carbamazepine (CBZ). Animals were divided into three groups; control, CBZ administered group (200 mg/Kg for 10 days) and CBZ plus propranolol (30 mg/Kg for 10 days) treated group. Liver function test and histological evaluation by H and E st...
Rabia Khalid1, Saleema Bashir Shams1, Bibi Nazia Murtaza1,*, Gaitee Joshua1, Saira Mushtaq1, Hassan Al-Talhi2 and Abdulaziz Al-Amri2
...-II, atherosclerosis and hypertension.
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Chaman Ara1*, Asmatullah1, Zainab Riaz1, Memoona1, Asma Chaudhary2, Shagufta Andleeb2
...inosuidal spaces, portal hypertension, glomerulosclerosis, abnormal vascular pole in liver and kidney respectively. But when turmeric powder was coadministered with BP, these damages were reversed to a great extent. So, this study has proved the protective role of turmeric against toxicity induced by BP in female albino mice.
Novelty Statement | Curcumin, an active component of turmeric along with its proven anti-fungal an...
Saara Ahmad1,*, Iftikhar Ahmed2, Saida Haider3, Zehra Batool4, Laraib Liaquat3, Fatima Ahmed5, Asra Khan1, Tahira Perveen3, Mirza Jawad ul Hasnain6, Saima Khaliq7 and Saad Bilal Ahmed8
...l score to assess portal hypertension and liver damage. Animals fed with commercial chicken meat and feed for six weeks showed development of inflammation, necrosis, apoptosis and cirrhosis on histopathological examination of the liver, and had raised plasma TNF-α and AFP-levels. This study shows that damage to liver cells is caused by consumption of commercial feed for chickens and their meat which is considered safe for human consumption.
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Zulnorain Sajid1*, Muhammad Ramzan2 and Noreen Akhtar1
Foraging Behavior and Pollination Ecology of Bumble Bee and Honey Bee in Pakistan; A Review
...s like cardiac diseases, hypertension and many others problems. These are the main source of income for entomologist and agriculture graduates. There are several factors (habitat loss, landscape degradation, overuse of agrochemical, exotic species and pathogens) involved in the declining of pollinators, a big loss for the economy of Pakistan. The aim of this review paper was to check the importance of honey bee and bumblebee as chief pollinator of agriculture ...
Xuya Zhou1, Ying Liu1, Deqin Xu1, Jie Bao1, Yaru Cao2 and Yong Jin3*
...eased 20-HETE led to the hypertension which could increase markers (ET-1 and BNP) of cardiovascular disease in diabetes complicating arthritis rats. The results showed that the combination of the two drugs could increase the cardiovascular side effects, mainly through the arachidonic acid metabolic pathway CYP450.
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Ahmad Sadiq1, Muzafar Shah2*, Habib Ullah1, Irfan Ali1, Amir Alam3,
Navid Jalil1 and Muhammad Khan3
...to be at greater risk of hypertension and lipid abnormalities, which are the main cause of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The present work revealed the role of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) for the detection of lipid profile and CVD. In recent study 108 (56 males and 52 female) type 2 diabetes (T2DM) subjects were diagnosed at Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) Peshawar and private diabetic clinic “Khattak Medical Centre” (KMC), Dabgari Garden Peshawar,...
Hong Liu and Rui Xu*
...t women with gestational hypertension. One-hundred single-fetal pregnant women diagnosed with gestational hypertension in our hospital from June 2017 to December 2019 were enrolled in the study. They were divided into mild prehypertension group (50 cases) and severe prehypertension group (50 cases). Another 50 cases of normal single-fetal pregnant women ...
Jiacheng Du and Yuping Cao*
...riage, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and gestational diabetes of patients in Group A is significantly lower (P<0.05). AMH level showed high specificity (77.52%) and sensitivity (81.46%) in predicting IVF-ET clinical pregnancy in PCOS patients. PCOS patients with lower AMH levels showed better sex hormone levels and clinical pregnancy outcomes in IVF-ET. Serum AMH level is valuable (of good value) in predicting IVF-ET clinical pregnancy in PCOS patients. I...
Amber Khalid1*, Farah Ashfaq1, Shahzadi Farah1, Amna Akbar1, Farkhanda Manzoor1, Muhammad Babar Khawar2, Saira Riaz3 and Safina Ashfaq3
...etes, renal diseases and hypertension in later age due to alteration of different serological parameters. In conclusion weight is associated with biochemical parameters. Any alteration in these parameters may cause health issues. Effective pediatric interventions are essential....
Mian Shamas Murtaza1,*, Aysha Sameen2, Saima Rafique3, Muhammad Shahbaz1,*, Nabeela Gulzar4, Mian Anjum Murtaza5, Umar Farooq1 and Iram Hafiz6
...ncrease in diseases like hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular diseases etc. Inulin is a food ingredient that belongs to a class of carbohydrates known as fructans with degree of polymerization range from 2-70. Resistant starch is obtained by chemical and enzymatic treatment of starch to increase its properties. These have functional and health-promoting properties as they reduce caloric value, add dietary fiber and endorse prebiotic effects. These are frequen...
Pengliang Xie1, Lufang Zheng2*, Mingxia Dong3, Huaiqiang Zhang1 and Fang Chen1
...had higher proportion of hypertension (P<0.05) compared with the control group, and there was no difference in other general information (gender, age, BMI) (P>0.05). Compared with the control group, the diseased group had higher expression of sVEGFR-1 and sVEGFR-2 mRNA (P<0.05), and higher content of VEGF, PlGF, sICAM-1, MCP-1 and PDGF than the control group (P<0.05). The diseased group had higher protein expression of IL-6, IL-8, IL-12 and IL-13 t...
Umara Amir ud Din1, Waqas Ahmed Khan1*, Khurrum Shahzad1,2, Basharat Ali3, Misbah Hussain1,4 and Fazli Rabbi Awan4
... is high blood pressure (hypertension) which remains uncontrolled chronically. Renin angiotensin aldosterone system (RAAS) is a major regulator of the blood pressure, electrolytes and fluid homeostasis. RAAS plays a key role in modulating the sodium metabolism, vasoconstriction, vascular tone and renal hemodynamics. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is a key member of RAAS pathway and target for anti-hypertensive drugs. ACE (I/D) polymorphism studies for its...
You-Ming Teng, Wen-Zhou Liu and Li Yang*
...c hypertrophy induced by hypertension always goes with abnormal myocardial glucolipid metabolism. However, whether or not pioglitazone may alleviate the cardiac hypertrophy and reverse abnormal myocardial glucolipid metabolism is still unknown. We conducted this experiment to explore the influence of pioglitazone on cardiac hypertrophy in rats. Rats with cardiac hypertrophy induced by renovascular hypertension were given a g...
Xiaoyan Yang1* and Xiuli Xu2
...s did not show diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, or smoking. For both groups, Influenza-like experiments were performed in the form of fever with cough or sore throat. The mean age was 53.7 ± 8.99 years in the case group and 54.1 ± 8.89 years in the control group. 25 patients (50%) in the case group and 6 patients (12%) in the control group had influenza-like infection and the comparison between the two groups showed a statistically significa...
Yanmei Wang1,2, Haoyun Li1, Lijuan Han1 and Wenkui Wang1*
...ign: justify;">Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a metabolic disorder that occurs in broilers. It is characterized by pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure and a large amount of yellowish liquid accumulated in the body cavity, and has become one of the most causes of non-infectious death in broiler industry worldwide. The macrophage migration inhibition factor (MIF) and related protein and gene expressions in its downstre...
Nauman Jamil Khan1, Rabia Tariq2, Hina Saleem2 and Muhammad Waheed Mushtaq2*
...se health issues such as hypertension, brain strokes, renal irregularity, heart attack etc. Various analytical techniques including atomic absorption spectroscopy, chromatography methods, ion selective electrode method, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, complexometric titration method and thermometric endpoint titrimetry are developed to determine the quantity of sodium. Spectrophotometric methods are cheap, easy to handle and more precise to quantify sodi...
Fadime Eroglu1*, Altan Akineden2, Cemal Cicek3, Selcuk Turkel2
...ses such as diabetes and hypertension, intestinal protozoan infections can be a comorbidity with COVID-19 disease and increase the mortality rate of COVID-19 disease. In addition, our study shows that C. parvum var 1 may be the cause in recurrent COVID-19 disease. Therefore, it is useful to consider intestinal protozoan infections in the follow-up and treatment processes of COVID-19 patients. ...
Geeta Moolchandani1, Jaiperkash Moolchandani2*, Nasima Iqbal3,
Syed Mohsin Turab4, Muhammad Kashif5 and Lubna Farooq6
...emia (35.9%), history of hypertension (35.2%), prolonged second stage of labor (29%), vacuum extraction (23.4%), premature delivery (25.5%) and intrauterine growth retardation (16.6%). Overall, 95.2% neonates were identified to have one or more of these contributing factors. Stratified analysis showed that over all neonates of female gender were associated with having more frequency of HIE. Maternal anemia was found to be significantly associated with the occu...
Yanfei Cai1, Jiahong Feng1 and Wanlong Zhu1,2,3*
...h as insulin resistance, hypertension, or hyperlipidemia after obesity, and there were also no typical obesity complications such as diabetes, inflammation, or fatty liver. To sum up, we suggest that T. belangeri can be used as an animal model of metabolic healthy obesity, and the special model organism of metabolic healthy obesity will provide us with new opportunities to study obesity problems....
Youlin Fu1, Zhongming Yang1 and Chongrong Qiu2*
...ously hypertensive rats (hypertension group) and 8 normal rats (Wistar group) were selected, and CA smooth muscle cells were isolated from the two groups. The PC of CA smooth muscle cells were recorded by patch clamp whole cell recording technique, and the BK currents and BK tail currents of CA smooth muscle cells were recorded and compared between the two groups. The BK α and BK β proteins expression in the two groups was detected by western blot. ...
Li Wang, Feifei Feng, Kefei Peng, Yan Zhang and Ling Zhou*
...ncidences of gestational hypertension, gestational diabetes, immune system diseases, and preterm delivery were also higher than those of negative group (P<0.05). Our study indicates that the pregnancy outcomes of syphilis false-positive group are poor, suggesting its relevance to obstetric prognostic and may need more attention from early pregnancy period, including antenatal examination and necessary laboratory tests to exclude other systemic diseases....
Mehak Muhammad Ashfaq1*, Aqsa Naeem Chawla1, Muhammad Umaid Ali1 and Adnan Ahmed Bhutto2
...larly on cardiac arrest, hypertension, insulin resistance, oxidative stress, inflammation, and platelet functions through many mechanisms. Eating dark chocolate lowers blood pressure, both diastolic and systolic, increases the bioactivity of nitric acid, and strengthens endothelial function. However, due to the amount of sugar it contains, it adversely impacts our health, resulting in weight gain....
Zhongjiang Niu1, Periyannan Velu2, Annamalai Vijayalakshmi2*
...S), mean kindling score, hypertension, anxiety, discrimination ability (SNSE), learning, and memory in eight groups of rats. PTZ – kindling rats showed poor motor activity. PTZ-kindling rats showed increase in emotional tension, anxiety, learning and memory, pro-inflammatory mediators (IL-1β and TNF-α) in hippocampal tissue, neuronal damage (increased sNSE), mitochondrial dysfunction, and oxidative stress. PTZ-kindling augmented TBARS and redu...
