Sentence examples for off hypertension from inspiring English sources

Four-time Super Bowl winner Joe Montana Joe Montana has signed a two-year deal with Swiss drugmaker Novartis to hawk its "Take the Pressure Off" hypertension awareness campaign and to promote Novartis's blood-pressure medicine Lotrel.

Four-time Super Bowl winner Joe Montana Joe Montana signed a two-year deal with Swiss drugmaker Novartis to hawk its "Take the Pressure Off" hypertension awareness campaign and to promote Novartis's blood-pressure medicine Lotrel.

It was overlooked, or shrugged off, that hypertension needs a long span of years to cause damage and that even marginal hypertension -- blood pressure on the border of being high -- threatens the body almost as much as the full-blown disorder.

The NCEP III cut off for hypertension was present in a significantly higher proportion of patients in the ME group (P = 0.027) but not in the LE group.

Prehypertensives are nonmedicated individuals with suboptimal BP levels not reaching the cut-off for hypertension.

The mean diastolic and systolic blood pressure of the total group was below the respective cut-offs for hypertension [ 12] (Table  3).

Another problem is the definition of 24-h ABPM cut-offs for hypertension diagnosis and therapeutic goals in type 2 DM.

Prehypertensives are commonly classified as nonhypertensive and are not medicated; however, they have nonoptimal BP levels (i.e., SBP or DBP ≥ 120/80mmHgg but below the cut-off for hypertension) (Chobanian et al. 2003) that could be influenced by air pollution.

The data produced in the present study show a significant increase in the numbers of patients fulfilling the NCEP III-specified cut off levels for hypertension (= 130/85 mm Hg or taking anti-hypertensives) in those receiving long-term GC.

Studies show that cardiovascular disease, set off mainly by hypertension, is the leading cause of death among people with diabetes, and two of every three diabetes-related deaths are caused by heart disease or stroke.

Dr. Levy said Abbott's chemists "basically knocked off" an existing hypertension medicine, changing a few molecules to turn prazosin, a Pfizer drug, into terazosin, a patentable compound that would later take the brand name Hytrin.