Posts Tagged ‘Hypertension’
To see the prevalence of hypertension rates on the level of different states in the US, a study was recently conducted was evaluated during of the recent studies conducted by Majid Ezzati, Ph.D., lead author of the study and associate professor of International Health at the ‘Harvard School of Public Health’, Boston.
He found variation in the rates across the country however seeing the worst uncontrolled hypertension rates especially in the south and including the nation’s capital; he recommended special control efforts to regulate the blood pressure associated problems.
However, this study does not provide any data regarding how individual states measure up when it comes to hypertension prevalence. They could take in account only the self reported hypertension status.
During the study, they derived from the survey done by the national health and nutrition examination that there has been a gradual fall in the declining rate of the prevalence of hypertension rates for the decades up to the 1990s.
Preeclampsia is a condition, associated with human pregnancy which gives rise to ‘hypertension’ and ‘proteinuria’. Despite decades of preventive efforts, it causes the highest number of maternal deaths and is the leading cause of prenatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. It also contributes significantly to pre-term delivery and still births and death in new born.Researchers at ‘Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center’ during one of their studies found that during ‘Preeclampsia’ there is a rise in the level of a peptide that affects the blood pressure in certain parts of placenta, a tissue which links the mother and the fetus. They have tried to find out how this disorder happens.
