Hypertension (HTN) or high blood pressure, sometimes arterial hypertension, is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is elevated. This requires the heart to work harder than normal to circulate blood through the blood vessels. Blood pressure involves two ...
In a 2004 publication by Gianfranco Parati and their team in their paper “Blood pressure measurement in research and in clinical practice: recent evidence”, question why kPa can’t be a unit of blood pressure, while mmHg was relevant for mercury sphygmomanometers. The conversion between these ...
Cortisol, often referred to as the “stress hormone,” is produced by the adrenal glands and plays a key role in several bodily functions. It regulates metabolism, reduces inflammation, assists with memory formation and controls blood pressure. ...
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The change in the proportion of eosinophils (EOS) at 48 h post-HDM challenge, relative to baseline, was lower in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples from the nanoparticle-treated left caudal lobe (black squares) than the saline-treated right accessory lobe (white squares) of the lungs. ...
(18-megapixel Canon EOS Rebel T6 with an EF-S 55–250 mm f/4.0–5.6 IS zoom lens) is set to take pictures every 6 s for a total of 3 h. Based on our prior studies19,20,33,34, acquiring images every 6 s allowed us to capture selected relevant behaviors with great detail while...
The Hypoxylaceae (Xylariales, Ascomycota) is a diverse family of mainly saprotrophic fungi, which commonly occur in angiosperm-dominated forests around the
(Serrano-V tag, Xeos Technologies Inc., Dartmouth, NS, Canada). We deployed the video-data recorder by hand on 24 free-swimming foraging leatherbacks across five years (2008–2011, 2013). Data from four tags were excluded from analyses because deployments lasted < 1 hr, which was ...
As Pb has a half-life of approximately 1–2 months in blood, repeated measurements can be used to monitor changes in exposure with time [6]. Despite there being no safe level of exposure, many public health agencies have blood lead reference values (BLRV) for children. The current BLRV ...