The administration of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin type 1 receptor blockers (ARBs) to pregnant women has been reported to cause ACEI/ARB fetopathy, including oligohydramios, pulmonary hypoplasia, renal insufficiency, limb contracture, and fetal hypotension in the child. Most of
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension, 24(5), 475-480 (2001-10-26)
A randomized prospective controlled study, the National Interventional Cooperative Study in Elderly Hypertensives (NICS-EH), previously demonstrated that the preventive effect of the long-acting calcium channel blocker nicardipine on the cardiovascular endpoint was similar to that of the diuretic, trichlormethiazide. The
We tested the hypothesis that blockade of angiotensin II type 1 receptors reduces oxidative stress markers in parallel with urinary albumin and type IV collagen excretions. Sixty-six diabetic patients with nephropathy were randomly assigned to either the angiotensin II receptor
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension, 32(12), 1086-1090 (2009-09-26)
Morning hypertension has been reported to be an important risk factor for cardiovascular events, and arterial stiffness bears a relationship with cardiovascular risk. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether high-dose angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) treatment has
Congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is characterized by the insensitivity of the distal nephron to arginine vasopressin. Clinical knowledge of this disease is based largely on case reports. For this study, we investigated the clinical findings of eight patients in