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Silicon This element is essential for growth and skeletal development in certain animal species. Silicon is currently not considered to be essential for humans, but it may be involved in the formation of connective tissue, bone matrix, atherosclerosis, hypertension, and in the aging process [14, 15]. 

Who is nowadays not aware of the negative effects on health of high cholesterol levels in blood Atherosclerosis, hypertension, and myocardiac infarction can be the consequences... 

Some speculations—It has been speculated, without proof, that the use of unnatural foods in the first months of life may sow seeds which appear later as chronic disorders such as allergies, atherosclerosis, hypertension, and diabetes. 

Other Cardiovascular Agents Effecting Atherosclerosis. A large amount of clinical data is available concerning semm Upid profiles in patients subjected to dmg therapy for other cardiovascular diseases. Atheroma, for example, may be the underlying cause of hypertension and myocardial infarction. There are on the order of 1.5 million heart attacks pet year in the United States (155). 

Undernutrition occuts in two extreme fotms matas-mus in adults and children and kwashiotkot in children. Overnutrition from excess enetgy intake is associated with diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, cancer, and hypertension. 

Supplements of 400 Ig/d of folate begun before conception result in a significant reduction in the incidence of neural mbe defects as found in spina bifida. Elevated blood homocysteine is an associated risk factor for atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and hypertension. The condition is due to impaired abihty to form methyl-tetrahydrofolate by methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase, causing functional folate deficiency and resulting in failure to remethylate homocysteine to methionine. People with the causative abnormal variant of methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase do not develop hyperhomocysteinemia if they have a relatively high intake of folate, but it is not yet known whether this affects the incidence of cardiovascular disease. 

This point of view overlooks the fact that every well and normal individual is potentially an ill individual, and the roots of disease may be present in his make-up years before there is any overt disease. A dozen young men used as normal controls may each have metabolic peculiarities that point toward a different metabolic derangement gout, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, anemia, atherosclerosis, hypertension, nephrosis, hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic heart disease, liver cirrhosis, and myasthenia gravis, for example, and yet at the time of their use as controls these young men may show no symptoms of the disease which is to appear later in life. It seems far from safe to assume that because an individual on clinical examination seems well, all of his blood values, for example, are normal and meaningless so far as disease susceptibilities are concerned. 

Several peptides possessing antihypertensive effect proved to play a promising role in regnlating vascnlar fnnctions as described in the past researches. The present chapter is aimed to offer an overview of a new functionality of small peptides in preventing hypertension and vessel dysfunctions including atherosclerosis. 

ACE inhibitors are widely prescribed for patients with atherosclerosis, hypertension, or diabetes, and after myocardial infarction, because of proven beneficial effects in each of these groups. In light of the results in the setting of stent restenosis, whether a patient with hypertension or some other target disorder who carries the DD genotype derives less benefit from ACE inhibitor therapy warrants consideration. 

However, if a man smokes, eats to the point of obesity, and has elevated blood glucose and elevated blood pressure, his peripheral nervous system wires do not respond adequately to the let s have intercourse signal from the brain—in other words, neurological innervation of the penis is rendered faulty, usually by diabetes (Fig. 14—12). Furthermore, there may not be much pressure in the plumbing — there may be atherosclerosis of the arterial supply of the penis from hypertension and hypercholesterolemia—when cGMP says relax the smooth muscle and let the... 

A study has been undertaken to clarify whether glucocorticoid excess affects endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation in glucocorticoid treated patients and whether dexamethasone alters the production of hydrogen peroxide and the formation of peroxynitrite, a reactive molecule between nitric oxide and superoxide, in cultured human umbilical endothelial cells (7). Glucocorticoid excess impaired endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation in vivo and enhanced the production of reactive oxygen species to cause increased production of peroxynitrite in vitro. Glucocorticoid-induced reduction in nitric oxide availability may cause vascular endothelial dysfunction, leading to hypertension and atherosclerosis. 

The benefit of glucocorticoid therapy is often limited by several adverse reactions, including cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension and atherosclerosis. Plasma volume expansion due to sodium retention plays a minor role, but increased peripheral vascular resistance, due in part to an increased pressor response to catecholamines and angiotensin II, plays a major role in the pathogenesis of hypertension induced by glucocorticoid excess. However, the molecular mechanism remains unclear. 

In lipid metabolism, there is elegant balance in the levels of end-product lipids, and the enzymes and genes involved in their biosynthesis, as well as close cooperation with other metabolisms to maintain homeostasis. When the balance is lost, obesity or hyperlipidemia will develop, leading to a variety of serious diseases including atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, functional depression of certain organs, and so on. Therefore, the control of lipid metabolism by drugs could lead to the prevention or treatment of these diseases. 

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