Vasilios Papademetriou
Georgetown University
356 Papers
2.6K Citations
Vasilios Papademetriou is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blood pressure & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 348 publications. Previous affiliations of Vasilios Papademetriou include University of Washington & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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Papers
Acute and short-term effects of new calcium antagonist in hypertension
TL;DR: In this paper, Nitrendipine (Bay e 5009) was tested in a range of single and repeated doses in 10 adult males with uncomplicated mild to moderate hypertension and the treatment goal was reduction of diastolic blood pressure to 90 mm Hg or less.
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Effectiveness of potassium chloride or triamterene in thiazide hypokalemia.
TL;DR: Addition of triamterene to diuretic therapy resulted in a small but statistically significant increase in plasma creatinine level.
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Morning Surge and Peak Morning Ambulatory Blood Pressure Versus Automated Office Blood Pressure in Predicting Cardiovascular Disease
Emmanuel A. Andreadis,Charalampia V. Geladari,Epameinondas T. Angelopoulos,George N. Kolyvas,Vasilios Papademetriou +4 more
TL;DR: In initially untreated hypertensives, AOBP appears to be at least equally reliable to 24-h monitoring in the evaluation of morning blood pressure peak in order to detect CV disease whereas the sleep-trough and preawakening morning BP surge did not indicate such an effect.
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Arterial Stiffness and Emerging Biomarkers: Still a Long Journey to Go.
Michael Doumas,Michael Doumas,Vasilios Papademetriou,Vasilios G. Athyros,Asterios Karagiannis +4 more
TL;DR: A large crosssectional study evaluating the association between central arterial stiffness and hemodynamics with several novel biomarkers reports an independent association of arterial stiffening with triglyceride (TG) levels and the TG to highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) ratio.
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Cardiovascular morbidity of severe resistant hypertension among treated uncontrolled hypertensives: a 4-year follow-up study.
Alexandros Kasiakogias,Costas Tsioufis,Kyriakos Dimitriadis,Dimitrios Konstantinidis,A. Koumelli,Ioannis Leontsinis,Eirini Andrikou,N. Vogiatzakis,Smaragdi Marinaki,Dimitrios Petras,C. Fragoulis,Konstantinos Konstantinou,Vasilios Papademetriou,Dimitrios Tousoulis +13 more
TL;DR: In conclusion, among treated yet uncontrolled hypertensive patients, severe RHTN exhibits a significantly higher cardiovascular risk indicating the need for prompt management.
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