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  • Hypertension: Secondary Causes

     If you have high blood pressure (hypertension) there are about nine chances out of 10 that it will be essential hypertension or primary hypertension, which implies that you do not have any clear caus

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  • Hypertension

    Hypertension refers to high blood pressure. It is important because the risks of cardiovascular disease (mainly heart attack, heart failure, stroke and chronic kidney disease) increase in patients wi

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  • Home Blood Pressure Recording

    High blood pressure is a major risk factor for all the common cardiovascular diseases including heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease. It also contributes to a loss of kidney function,

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  • Dietary Salt Restriction

    Introduction We are evolved from early hominids that lived in a hot, arid climate and ate foods with a very low salt intake. Our current lifestyle with its high salt intake poses a problem for us

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  • Dietary Potassium

    A diet rich in potassium is a healthy choice for most normal people and those with high blood pressure. Indeed, a high potassium diet is part of the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) die

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  • Kidney Disease

    If your physician has told you that you have chronic kidney disease or CKD, this means that you have decreased function of your kidneys. At the very early stages, this may be apparent only as an incr

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  • DASH Diet Information

    You may wish to get some advice on a good diet for people with high blood pressure or cardiovascular disease. Please recognize that diet is always a very controversial topic with many unfounded theor

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  • Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM)

    Instructions Measurements of blood pressure in the clinic give an approximate indication of your blood pressure levels. More accurate information comes from home blood pressure recording by you. H

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  • Looking Ahead

    The Georgetown University Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases Clinical Trials Unit (GUH-ID CTU) will continue to develop and participate in clinical studies that fulfill its research agenda and

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  • References: Division of Infectious Diseases

    1. Collier AC, Kalish LA, Busch MP, Gernsheimer T, Assmann SF, Lane TA, Asmuth DM, Lederman MM, Murphy EL, Kumar P, Kelley M, Flanigan TP, McMahon DK, Sacks HS, Kennedy MS, Holland PV.: Leukocyte-Red

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