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A double-blind, active-controlled hypertension component is designed to compare the rate of fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) or nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) (the primary endpoint) in high-risk hypertensive participants, aged 55 years or older, between those randomized to treatment initiated with a diuretic (chlorthalidone) and treatment initiated with each of three alternative antihypertensive drugs: a calcium-channel blocker (amlodipine), an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitor (lisinopril), or an alpha-adrenergic blocker (doxazosin).
Endurance training regimens like running or cycling employ tonic patterns of contractile work, and it is this form of habitual activity that serves best to reduce risk for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
The moderate-risk group included visits by patients without CHD or equivalent but with at least two of the following risk factors: age (for men, >45 y; for women, >55 y), cigarette smoking, or a physician-reported diagnosis of hypertension.
Since insulin sensitivity is affected by hypertension [ 11, 12] and abnormal glucose tolerance [ 2], we examined the relationship of this polymorphism with insulin sensitivity in 55 healthy and normotensive Caucasians with normal glucose tolerance.
Rabbits may provide an in vivo system for modeling some aspects of glaucoma, such as steroid induced ocular hypertension [ 23 24 25 26 27 ] and the gain-of-function hypothesis in POAG [ 42 ] .