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The cardiotonic steroid marinobufagenin is a predictor of increased left ventricular mass in obesity: the African-PREDICT study
(MDPI, 2020)
The endogenous Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitor, marinobufagenin (MBG), strongly associates with salt intake and a greater left ventricular mass index (LVMi) in humans and was shown to promote cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophy in ...
2020 International Society of Hypertension global hypertension practice guidelines - lifestyle modification. Reply
(Wolters Kluwer, 2020)
The 2020 ISH Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines [1] include a detailed list of lifestyle modifications with varying levels of evidence for the reduction of blood pressure and cardiovascular risk. We listed some novel ...
Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
(Elsevier, 2020)
Summary
Background Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of
high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy ...
Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017
(Springer Nature, 2020)
A double burden of malnutrition occurs when individuals, household members or communities experience both undernutrition
and overweight. Here, we show geospatial estimates of overweight and wasting prevalence among children ...
An ethnic comparison of arginine dimethylation and cardiometabolic factors in healthy black and white youth: the ASOS and African-PREDICT studies
(MDPI, 2020)
Proteinic arginine dimethylation (PADiMe) is a major post-translational modification. Proteolysis of asymmetric and symmetric PADiMe products releases asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA), ...
Indirect implications of COVID-19 prevention strategies on non-communicable diseases: an opinion paper of the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in subjects living in or emigrating from low resource settings
(BMC, 2020)
Background
After its outbreak in China, the novel COronaVIrus Disease 19 is spreading across the globe. It is an emergency the world has never seen before.
Main text
The attention of health systems is mainly focused ...
Salt and potassium intake among adult Ghanaians: WHO-SAGE Ghana Wave 3
(BMC, 2020)
Though Ghana has high hypertension prevalence, the country lacks current national salt consumption data required to build and enhance advocacy for salt reduction. We explored the characteristics of a randomly selected sub ...
Microvascular function in non-dippers: potential involvement of the salt sensitivity biomarker, marinobufagenin-the African-PREDICT study
(Wiley, 2020)
Suppressed nighttime blood pressure dipping is associated with salt sensitivity and may increase the hemodynamic load on the microvasculature. The mechanism remains unknown whereby salt sensitivity may increase the ...
Ethnicity and arterial stiffness
(AHA, 2020)
Early vascular aging reflects increased arterial stiffness of central blood vessels at young chronological ages and
powerfully predicts cardiovascular events and mortality, independent of routine brachial blood pressure ...
The new wave of Asia: a message from the president of the International Society of Hypertension
(Wiley, 2020)
Globally, raised blood pressure is the leading risk factor accountable for over 10.4 million deaths per year.1 The cardiovascular consequences of hypertension are devastating, which is why raised blood pressure requires ...