Article: Canaloplasty safely enhances aqueous outflow

Article: Diastolics Below 80 mm Hg Lower Stroke Risk.(Statistical Data Included)
Family Practice News;  April 1, 2000 ;     548 words ......initial stroke, diastolic pressures over 90 mm Hg confer a significant increase in risk for...to push the diastolic pressure below 80 mm Hg. The optimal poststroke blood pressure...pressures that have been decreased to below 80 mm Hg, Dr. Friday noted. In that study, subjects...

Article: Schlemm's canal cannulation may rejuvenate aqueous outflow
Ophthalmology Times;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to help dilate the canal and collector system...IOP greater than 21 mm Hg. Of 60 patients in...IOP of less than 18 mm Hg, for those patients...locating the Schlemm's canal is too challenging...dissected up to the canal as it presents itself...ofthe suture in the canal, ...

Article: Hypertension treatment in the elderly needs careful scrutiny: octogenarians may be healthier if their systolic blood pressure is around 140 mm hg, if they do not suffer from heart failure or coronary artery disease.(TREATMENT)
Heart Advisor;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......systolic (top number) reading of more than 140 mm Hg and a diastolic (lower number) reading of less than 90 mm Hg. It's the most common form of hypertension...systolic blood pressure (SBP) of less than 140 mm Hg and a diastolic blood pressure (DBP) of...

Article: Systolic target of 135 mm Hg cuts diabetes mortality: deaths reduced by 14%, vs. control group.(News)
Internal Medicine News;  September 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......pressure for patients with diabetes at 130/80 mm Hg. But no major trial results have ever proved...average systolic blood pressure of 135 mm Hg. The treatment also produced a 14% relative...systolic pressure in the control arm was 140 mm Hg. The findings are important because they...

Article: Beta blocker meets stricter criterion: nebivolol can lower DBP by 15 mm Hg or more.
Renal & Urology News;  August 1, 2008 ;     563 words ......diastolic blood pressure (DBP) reduction of 10 mm Hg or more. This criterion, however, may not...the variability in DBP is as high as 15 mm Hg, defining response using the more stringent criterion of a 15 mm Hg or greater reduction is more clinically...

Article: Adjust treatment goals in hypertensive seniors: in patients with coronary artery disease, pressure levels less than 120/80 mm Hg may be dangerous.(Cardiovascular Medicine)
Family Practice News;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......maintained a blood pressure of less than 120/80 mm Hg had a significantly higher rate of death...maintained at a pressure of 120-139/80-89 mm Hg, Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff, Pharm.D., reported...their systolic pressure was kept at 120-139 mm Hg. These findings are noteworthy because...

Article: High, low BP bad for stroke patients: poor outcomes more likely in those with mean arterial pressures below 90 and above 130 mm Hg.(Blood pressure)(Disease/Disorder overview)
Renal & Urology News;  July 1, 2006 ;     329 words ......CAD. The team defined high BP as a MAP of 130 mm Hg or higher and low BP as a MAP of 90 mm Hg or less. The investigators evaluated initial...artery disease. Patients with MAPs above 130 mm Hg and below 90 mm Hg were three times as likely...

Article: Canal Closing Underscores U.S. Concern; Waterway Shuts Down for First Time in Its 75-Year History
The Washington Post;  December 21, 1989 ;     700+ words ...The Panama Canal was closed to shipping yesterday for the...decade ago during the debate over the Panama Canal Treaty about the commercial and strategic...turning full sovereignty over the U.S.-run canal to Panama by the year 2000. With three...

Article: The Canal's declining importance; though still regularly used, it is no longer a vital waterway. (Panama Canal)
U.S. News & World Report;  May 22, 1989 ;     336 words ...The Panama Canal is not the strategic choke point for the United...building aircraft carriers too large to fit the canal's locks. At the height of the Vietnam War, U.S. military ships included the canal in more than 1,000 voyages annually. But canal...

Article: Manifest destiny meets democracy; Panama and its canal.
The Economist (US);  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Panama's canal needs an upgrade. Can its politicians deliver...through the last lock gates of the Panama Canal into the Pacific is grand entertainment...It also represents good business for the canal, which charges the very biggest liners around...

Article: Shipping boom transforms Suez Canal: the world's principal trade route is carrying out a series of redevelopments to maintain its premier position.(TRANSPORT)
MEED Middle East Economic Digest;  December 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ...EGYPT The Suez Canal is the world's most famous waterway. Wars...driven by exports from China and india, the canal is under constant redevelopment to ensure...and Washington on 11 September 2001, the canal has produced record-breaking revenues for...

Article: Albright defends Panama Canal handover.
United Press International;  January 19, 2000 ;     615 words ...The Panama Canal, PANAMA Jan 15. (UPI) Against the backdrop of giant...Saturday defended the recent U.S. handover of the Panama Canal. As the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the Canal since the Dec. 31 handover, Albright said there had...

Article: Officials and Shippers Question Panama's Preparation for Canal Takeover
The Washington Post;  October 17, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Officials of the Panama Canal Commission and international shipping experts are expressing concern...amending the 1979 treaty under which Panama is to take charge of the canal. But canal officials and analysts here said the government's inaction has...

Article: US ENDS ITS HOLD ON PANAMA CANAL
The Boston Globe;  December 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ...PANAMA CANAL ZONE - It was the engineering marvel that...made the first passage through the Panama Canal on Aug. 15, 1914, the United States had...States symbolically handed control of the canal and its surrounding 360,000 acres to Panama...