(2) Methods: a prospective, randomized, parallel pilot study of 4.5 g administration of <i>Spirulina</i><i>maxima</i> or placebo for 12 weeks in 16 patients with systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) undergoing treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors was performed to assess the effects on endothelial damage and oxidative stress indicators.
1) The ACE DD genotype is significantly increased in patients with severe PPH compared with normal controls, suggesting that certain individuals may be genetically predisposed to developing pulmonary hypertension.
5A5A and 5A6A genotypes of MMP-3 (odds ratio (OR) 1.5; P = 0.021), II and ID genotypes of ACE (OR 1.7; P = 0.006) along with traditional ischaemic heart disease risk factors such as smoking (OR 4.9; P = 0.001), hypertension (OR 2.0; P = 0.001), diabetes mellitus (OR 2.9; P = 0.001) and dyslipidaemia (OR 2.1; P = 0.001) increased the risk of STEMI.
Hypertension frequently has its onset during childhood and is usually refractory to standard anti-hypertensives such as ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers.
Hypertension is closely linked to ischaemic stroke (IS) and atherosclerosis, but there are no studies correlating the candidate hypertensive gene, namely angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and adducin 1 (ADD1) with magnetic resonance angiographic (MRA) abnormality, therefore this study was undertaken.
High blood pressure is one of the major risk factors for various diseases and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) plays a critical role in blood pressure regulation.
Hypertension is a serious threat to human health and food-derived angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE; EC 3.4.15.1) inhibitory peptides can be used to regulate high blood pressure without side effects.
Hypertension affects more than 30% of the world's adult population and thiazide (and thiazide-like) diuretics are amongst the most widely used, effective, and least costly treatments available, with all-cause mortality benefits equivalent to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or calcium channel antagonists.
ACE inhibitors are recognised as being highly effective therapy for hypertension and cardiac insufficiency, and have a more beneficial effect on survival rate than expected on the basis of known mechanisms of action.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) plays an important role in vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension, and ACE gene polymorphism is associated with exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension in Japanese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.