AJH 2002; 15:1121-1143 Subject Index A Hypertension-Related Phenotypes in African Americans, 989 Acetylcholine Impaired Stress-Induced Pressure Natriuresis Tetrahydrobiopterin Enhances Forearm Vascular Increases Cardiovascular Load in African Response to Acetylcholine in Both American Youths, 903 Normotensive and Hypertensive Individuals, Linkage of Left Ventricular Early Diastolic Peak 326 Filling Velocity to Chromosome 5 in Adenoma Hypertensive African Americans: The Dopaminergic Modulation of Aldosterone HyperGEN Echocardiography Study, 621 Secretions on Changes of Sodium Intake in Relation of Insulin to Left Ventricular Geometry Aldosterone-Producing Adenoma, 609 and Function in African American and White Adenylate cyclase Hypertensive Adults: The HyperGEN Study, Leptin Affects Adenylate Cyclase Activity in H9c2 1029 Cardiac Cell Line: Effects of Short- and Long- Age. See also Adolescents; Children; Elderly Term Exposure, 638 ) Effects of Age, Ethnicity, Gender, Blood Pressure, Adipose tissue and Estrogen on Arterial Compliance, 358 Overexpression of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Influence of Age, Risk Factors, and Cardiovascular Human Visceral Adipose Tissue in Normal and and Renal Disease on Arterial Stiffness: Overweight Subjects, 381 Clinical Applications, 1101 Adolescents Alcohol Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Ambulatory Divergent Effect of Acute and Chronic Alcohol on Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children and Arterial Stiffness, 240 Adolescents, 64S Effects of Alcohol Restriction on Ambulatory Blood Essential Hypertension in Adolescents: Association Pressure, Heart Rate, and Heart Rate Variability With Insulin Resistance and With Metabolism of Homocysteine and Vitamins, 857 in Japanese Men, 125 Adrenal hyperplasia Aldosterone Unilateral Adrenal Hyperplasia Causing Primary Additive Effect of Drospirenone/17-8-Estradiol in Aldosteronism: Limitations of I-131 Hypertensive Postmenopausal Women Norcholesterol Scanning, 459 Receiving Enalapril, 816 a,-Adrenergic receptors Cardiac and Vascular Fibrosis and Hypertrophy in Aldosterone-Infused Rats: Role of Endothelin-1, Chloride Increases Adrenergic Receptor—Mediated Platelet and Vascular Responses, 492 164 Gender Difference in Diet-Induced Obesity Dopaminergic Modulation of Aldosterone Hypertension: Implication of Renal a,- Secretions on Changes of Sodium Intake in Adrenergic Receptors, 143 Aldosterone-Producing Adenoma, 609 Adrenomedullin Echocardiographic Comparison of Left Ventricular Source of Plasma Adrenomedullin in Patients With Structure and Function in Hypertensive Patients Pheochromocytoma, 994 With Primary Aldosteronism and Essential African Americans. See also Ethnicity Hypertension, 340 (2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene and Resting Eplerenone, a Selective Aldosterone Blocker, in Hemodynamics in European and African Mild-to-Moderate Hypertension, 709 American Youth, 973 Unilateral Adrenal Hyperplasia Causing Primary Childhood Blood Pressure Predicts Adult Aldosteronism: Limitations of I-131 Microalbuminuria in African Americans, But Norcholesterol Scanning, 459 Not in Whites: The Bogalusa Heart Study, 1036 Aldosterone synthase Circadian Blood Pressure Overswinging in a Aldosterone Synthase (CYP11B2) -344 C/T Physically Fit, Normotensive African American Polymorphism Is Related to Antihypertensive Woman, 827 Response, 389 Ethnicity and Unprovoked Hypokalemia in the Ambient temperature Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Effect of Ambient Temperature and Barometric 594 Pressure on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Gender-Specific Correlates of Leptin With Variability, 941 © 2002 by the American Journal of Hypertension, Ltd. 0895-7061/02/$22.00 Published by Elsevier Science Inc. PII SO895-7061(02)03207-7 1122 SUBJECT INDEX AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 Ambulatory blood pressure Powerful Predictor of Restenosis After Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Coronary Artery Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Calcification in Middle-Aged and Younger Angioplasty, 823 Adults, 518 Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Pulse Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Clinical Pressure in Older Adults With Isolated Systolic Trials in Adults and Children, 38S Hypertension, 538 Ambulatory Pulse Pressure as Predictor of Outcome Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. See also in Older Patients With Systolic Hypertension, Specific drug 835 ACE Inhibition and Cardiovascular Mortality and Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Ambulatory Morbidity in Essential Hypertension: The End Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children and of the Search or a Need for Further Adolescents, 64S Investigations?, 367 Effect of Ambient Temperature and Barometric Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibition and Pressure on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Angiotensin II AT,-Receptor Blockade Reduces Variability, 941 the Levels of Asymmetrical N°, N°- Effects of Alcohol Restriction on Ambulatory Blood Dimethylarginine in Human Essential Pressure, Heart Rate, and Heart Rate Variability Hypertension, 590 in Japanese Men, 125 Antihypertensive Effects of Angiotensin Converting Evaluation of the Performance of a Wrist Blood Enzyme Inhibition By Lisinopril in Post- Pressure Measuring Device With a Position Transplant Patients, 91 1 Sensor Compared to Ambulatory 24-Hour Blood Pressure and Angiotensin Converting Blood Pressure Measurements, 787 Enzyme Inhibitor Use in Hypertensive Patients Longitudinal Study of Ethnic Differences in With Chronic Renal Insufficiency (letter), 832 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Patterns in Youth, 525 Comparative Effects of Candesartan and Enalapril Nighttime Blood Pressure Dipping: The Role of the on Augmented Vasoconstrictive Responses to Sympathetic Nervous System, 111 Endothelin-1 in Coronary Vessels of Reproducibility and Validity of Ambulatory Blood Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, 286 Pressure Monitoring in Children, 69S Effect of Losartan on Nocturnal Blood Pressure in Reproducibility of Home, Ambulatory, and Clinic Patients With Stroke: Comparison With Blood Pressure: Implications for the Design of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor, 998 Trials for the Assessment of Antihypertensive Effects on ACE Inhibitor Therapy on Derived Drug Efficacy, 101 Central Arterial Waveforms in Hypertension American Society of Hypertension (letter), 476 ASH Specialist Program: A Progress Report, 577 Low Doses of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Amlodipine Inhibitors and Angiotensin Type I Blockers Amlodipine Versus Chlorthalidone Versus Placebo Have a Synergistic Effect But High Doses Are in the Treatment of Stage I Isolated Systolic Less Than Additive, 1003 Hypertension, 31 Pharmacologic Management of Childhood Combination Therapy of Amlodipine/Benazepril Hypertension: Current Status, Future Versus Monotherapy of Amlodipine in a Challenges, 30S Practice-Based Setting, 550 PROGRESS Trial: Questions About the Comparative Crossover Evaluation of Amlodipine Effectiveness of Angiotensin Converting and Nifedipine GITS Before and After a Enzyme Inhibitors, 472 Missed Dose: 48-h Blood Pressure Profiles Ramipril Improves Hemodynamic Recovery But (letter), 580 Not Microvascular Response to Ischemia in Effect of Amlodipine Compared to Atenolol on Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, 410 Small Arteries of Previously Untreated Reduction in Arterial Stiffness With Angiotensin II Essential Hypertensive Patients, 105 Antagonist Is Comparable With and Additive to Effects of Amlodipine Fosinopril Combination on ACE Inhibition, 321 Microalbuminuria in Hypertensive Type 2 Diabetic Patients, 1042 Role of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers in Tolerability of Long-Term Treatment With Preventing the Progression of Renal Disease in Lercanidipine Versus Amlodipine and Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, 123S Lacidipine in Elderly Hypertensives, 932 Zofenopril Inhibits the Expression of Adhesion Angioplasty Molecules on Endothelial Cells By Reducing Inflection Point of Ascending Aortic Waveform Is a Reactive Oxygen Species, 891 AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 SUBJECT INDEX 1123 Angiotensin I Angiotensin II receptor blockers Effects of Omapatrilat on the Renin-Angiotensin Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibition and System in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension, 557 Angiotensin II AT ,-Receptor Blockade Reduces Angiotensin I blockers the Levels of Asymmetrical N°, N°- Angiotensin Receptor Blockers: How Important Is Dimethylarginine in Human Essential Selectivity?, 1006 Hypertension, 590 Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Polymorphisms in Angiotensin II Receptor Blockade in Diabetic the Cardiovascular Health Study: Relation to Nephropathy, 468 Blood Pressure, Ethnicity, and Cardiovascular Are There Meaningful Differences in Blood Events, 1050 Pressure Control With Current Antihypertensive Clinical Trials of Angiotensin Receptor Blockers in Agents?, 14S Heart Failure: What Do We Know and What Clinical Trials of Angiotensin Receptor Blockers in Will We Learn?, 22S Heart Failure: What Do We Know and What Low Doses of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Will We Learn?, 22S Inhibitors and Angiotensin Type I Blockers Effectiveness and Safety of the Angiotensin II Have a Synergistic Effect But High Doses Are Antagonist Irbesartan in Children With Chronic Less Than Additive, 1003 Kidney Diseases, 1057 Prolonged Treatment With the AT, Receptor Introduction: Hypertension Control in Clinical Blocker, Valsartan, Increases Small and Large Practice With a New Standard in Angiotensin II Artery Compliance in Uncomplicated Essential Receptor Blockade, 99S Hypertension, 1087 Role of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers in Angiotensin II Preventing the Progression of Renal Disease in Angiotensin and Vascular Fibrinolysis Balance, 3S Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, 1235S Cardiac Angiotensin II: An Intracrine Hormone?, Strategies to Meet Lower Blood Pressure Goals 1109 With a New Standard in Angiotensin II Comparative Effects of the Dual ACE—NEP Receptor Blockade, 108S Inhibitor MDL-100,240 and Ramipril on Use of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers in Animal Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease in Models of Atherosclerosis, 9S Endogenous Angiotensin II-Dependent Angiotensinogen Hypertension, 181 Overexpression of the Renin-Angiotensin System in — Early Changes in Proteoglycans Production By Human Visceral Adipose Tissue in Normal and Resistance Arteries Smooth Muscle Cells of Overweight Subjects, 381 Hypertensive Rats, 416 T +31C Polymorphism of Angiotensinogen Gene Early Onset of Chondroitin Sulfate and Osteopontin and Nocturnal Blood Pressure Decline: The Expression in Angiotensin II-Dependent Left Ohasama Study, 628 Ventricular Hypertrophy, 644 Antihypertensive drugs. See also Specific drug Effects of Omapatrilat on the Renin-Angiotensin ACE Inhibition and Cardiovascular Mortality and System in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension, 557 Morbidity in Essential Hypertension: The End Introduction: The Hemodynamic and Vascular of the Search or a Need for Further Effects of Angiotensin II: Managing the Investigations?, 367 Consequences, IS Antihypertensive Effects of Angiotensin Converting Reduction in Arterial Stiffness With Angiotensin II Enzyme Inhibition By Lisinopril in Post- Antagonist Is Comparable With and Additive to Transplant Patients, 911 ACE Inhibition, 321 Antihypertensive Therapy: Basic Pharmacokinetic Renin-Angiotensin and Adrenergic Nervous System and Pharmacodynamic Principles as Applied to in Cardiac Hypertrophy in Fructose-Fed Rats, Infants and Children, 34S 66 Antihypertensive Therapy and Orthostatic Angiotensin II blockers Hemodynamic Responses in Acute Stroke, 37 Effect of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockade on Are There Meaningful Differences in Blood Arterial Stiffness: Beyond Blood Pressure Pressure Control With Current Antihypertensive Reduction, 1092 Agents?, 14S Angiotensin II receptor(s) Differential Effects of Antihypertensive Drug Role of Central Angiotensin II Receptors in Cold- Therapy on Arterial Compliance, 1096 Induced Hypertension, 85 Extent of Potential Antihypertensive Drug Target Organ Damage in Hypertension: Interactions in a Medicaid Population, 953 Mechanisms, Prevention, and Management Incomplete Benefit of Antihypertensive Therapy on (editorial), 1117 Stroke Reduction in Older Hypertensives With 1124 SUBJECT INDEX AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 Abnormal Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping Arterial stiffness (Extreme-Dippers and Reverse-Dippers), 844 Clinical Applications of Arterial Stiffness; Left Ventricular Mass Change During Treatment Definitions and Reference Values, 426 and Outcome in Patients With Essential Clinical Applications of Arterial Suffness, Task Hypertension, 1021 Force III: Recommendations for User Procedures, 445 Reproducibility of Home, Ambulatory, and Clinic Clinical Applications of Arterial Stiffness: Blood Pressure: Implications for the Design of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, 453 Trials for the Assessment of Antihypertensive Correlates of Aortic Stiffness in Elderly Individuals: Drug Efficacy, 101 A Subgroup of the Cardiovascular Health Antioxidants Study, 16 Zofenopril Inhibits the Expression of Adhesion Differential Effects of Antihypertensive Drug Molecules on Endothelial Cells By Reducing Therapy on Arterial Compliance, 1096 Reactive Oxygen Species, 891 Divergent Effect of Acute and Chronic Alcohol on Aortic pulse wave reflection Arterial Stiffness, 240 Squatting: The Hemodynamic Change Is Induced Effect of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockade on By Enhanced Aortic Wave Reflection, 986 Arterial Stiffness: Beyond Blood Pressure Aortic wave velocity Reduction, 1092 Heart Rate Dependency of Pulse Pressure Heart Rate Dependency of Pulse Pressure Amplification and Arterial Stiffness, 24 Amplification and Arterial Stiffness, 24 Apolipoprotein E Influence of Age, Risk Factors, and Cardiovascular Apolipoprotein E2 Allele Modulates Activity and and Renal Disease on Arterial Stiffness: Maximal Velocity of the Sodium—Lithium Clinical Applications, 1101 Cotransporter, 633 Prognostic Application of Arterial Stiffness: Task L-Arginine Forces, 754 Assessment of Endothelial Function of the Renal Reduction in Arterial Stiffness With Angiotensin I] Vasculature in Human Subjects, 3 Antagonist Is Comparable With and Additive to Effects of L-Arginine on Blood Pressure and ACE Inhibition, 321 Metabolic Changes in Fructose-Hypertensive Serum Hepatocyte Growth Factor Concentration Is Rats, 72 Correlated With the Forearm Vasodilator Magnesium Deficiency During Pregnancy in Rats Response in Hypertensive Patients, 499 Increases Systolic Blood Pressure and Plasma Arteries. See also Specific artery Nitrite, 1081 Divergent Effect of Acute and Chronic Alcohol on Arterial Stiffness, 240 Arm cuff Early Changes in Proteoglycans Production By Arm Cuff in the Measurement of Blood Pressure, Resistance Arteries Smooth Muscle Cells of 67S Hypertensive Rats, 416 Arterial compliance Effect of Amlodipine Compared to Atenolol on Differential Effects of Antihypertensive Drug Small Arteries of Previously Untreated Therapy on Arterial Compliance, 1096 Essential Hypertensive Patients, 105 Effects of Age, Ethnicity, Gender, Blood Pressure, Large and Small Artery Compliance Changes and Estrogen on Arterial Compliance, 358 During Hemodialysis, 236 Influence of Blood Pressure and Carbohydrate Normal Perivascular Sensory Dilator Nerve Tolerance on Vascular Compliance in Humans, Function in Arteries of Zucker Diabetic Fatty 678 Rats, 310 Large and Small Artery Compliance Changes Prolonged Treatment With the AT, Receptor During Hemodialysis, 236 Blocker, Valsartan, Increases Small and Large Methods and Devices for Measuring Arterial Artery Compliance in Uncomplicated Essential Compliance in Humans (review), 743 Hypertension, 1087 Prolonged Treatment With the AT, Receptor Reflection in the Arterial System and the Risk of Blocker, Valsartan, Increases Small and Large Coronary Heart Disease, 405 Artery Compliance in Uncomplicated Essential Relation of Small Artery Compliance and Hypertension, 1087 Lipoprotein (a) in Patients With Arterial pressure Atherosclerosis, 980 Excess Dietary Glucose Alters Renal Function Ascending aortic waveform Before Increasing Arterial Pressure and Inflection Point of Ascending Aortic Waveform Is a Inducing Insulin Resistance, 773 Powerful Predictor of Restenosis After AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 SUBJECT INDEX 1125 Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Barometric pressure Angioplasty, 823 Effect of Ambient Temperature and Barometric Asthma Pressure on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Resistant Hypertension in a Young Man With Variability, 941 Asthma, 199 Baroreceptor reflex Atenolol Neurovascular Contact and Blood Pressure Effect of Amlodipine Compared to Atenolol on Response in Young, Healthy, Normotensive Small Arteries of Previously Untreated Men, 119 Essential Hypertensive Patients, 105 Baroreflex sensitivity Atherosclerosis Greater Intima—Media Thickness in the Carotid Beyond Blood Pressure: The Endothelium and Bulb Is Associated With Reduced Baroreflex Atherosclerosis Progression, 115S Sensitivity, 486 Cardiovascular Sequelae of Childhood Raising Lipids Acutely Reduces Baroreflex Hypertension, 61S Sensitivity, 479 Carotid Hemodynamic Alterations in Hypertensive BENaC gene Patients With Insulin Resistance, 851 Genotypes of the BENaC Gene Have Little Carotid Wall Thickening, Left Ventricular Influence on Blood Pressure Level in the Hypertrophy, and Insulin Resistance in Patients Japanese Population, 189 With Hypertension, 422 Benazeperil Design of the Omapatrilat in Persons With Combination Therapy of Amlodipine/Benazepril Enhanced Risk of Atherosclerotic Events Versus Monotherapy of Amlodipine in a (OPERA) Trial, 193 Practice-Based Setting, 550 Ethnicity and Unprovoked Hypokalemia in the Bendrofluazide Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Skeletal Muscle Magnesium Content Is Correlated 594 With Plasma Glucose Concentration in Patients Greater Intima—Media Thickness in the Carotid With Essential Hypertension Treated With Bulb Is Associated With Reduced Baroreflex Lisinopril or Bendrofluazide, 735 Sensitivity, 486 Beta blockers Relation of Small Artery Compliance and Effect of Amlodipine Compared to Atenolol on Lipoprotein (a) in Patients With Small Arteries of Previously Untreated Atherosclerosis, 980 Essential Hypertensive Patients, 105 Use of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers in Animal Blood pressure. See also Ambulatory blood pressure; Models of Atherosclerosis, 9S Systolic blood pressure Zofenopril Inhibits the Expression of Adhesion Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Coronary Artery Molecules on Endothelial Cells By Reducing Calcification in Middle-Aged and Younger Reactive Oxygen Species, 891 Adults, 518 Atrial natriuretic peptide Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Polymorphisms in Chronic Imidazoline Receptor Activation in the Cardiovascular Health Study: Relation to Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, 803 Blood Pressure, Ethnicity, and Cardiovascular Autonomic neuropathy Events, 1050 Role of Vasopressin in 24-Hour Blood Pressure Antihypertensive Therapy and Orthostatic Regulation in Diabetic Patients With Hemodynamic Responses in Acute Stroke, 37 Autonomic Neuropathy, 42 Are There Meaningful Differences in Blood Pressure Control With Current Antihypertensive Agents?, 14S Arm Cuff in the Measurement of Blood Pressure, f-Adrenergic receptor 67S {2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene and Resting B2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene and Resting Hemodynamics in European and African Hemodynamics in European and African American Youth, 973 American Youth, 973 Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping and B- Beneficial Effects on Blood Pressure and Lipid Adrenergic Receptor Sensitivity, 364 Profile of Programmed Exercise Training in Balloon angioplasty Subjects With White Coat Hypertension, 571 Successful Balloon Angioplasty of Native Aortic Beyond Blood Pressure: The Endothelium and Coarctation in a Young Adult With Refractory Atherosclerosis Progression, 115S Hypertension, 1015 Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Ambulatory 1126 SUBJECT INDEX AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children and Neurohumoral Characteristics of Older Hypertensive Adolescents, 64S Patients With Abnormal Nocturnal Blood Blood Pressure and Angiotensin Converting Pressure Dipping, 531 Enzyme Inhibitor Use in Hypertensive Patients Nighttime Blood, Pressure Dipping: The Role of the With Chronic Renal Insufficiency (letter), 832 Sympathetic Nervous System, 111 Childhood Blood Pressure Predicts Adult Prevalence and Consequence of Systolic Microalbuminuria in African Americans, But Hypertension in Children, 57S Not in Whites: The Bogalusa Heart Study, 1036 Pulse Pressure and Diurnal Blood Pressure Comparative Crossover Evaluation of Amlodipine Variation: Association With Micro- and and Nifedipine GITS Before and After a Macrovascular Complications in Type 2 Missed Dose: 48-h Blood Pressure Profiles Diabetes, 244 (letter), 580 Relationship of Waist Circumference to Blood Comparative Trial of Controlled-Onset Extended- Pressure: The Olivetti Heart Study, 780 Release Verapamil, Enalapril, and Losartan on Reproducibility of Home, Ambulatory, and Clinic Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Changes, 53 Blood Pressure: Implications for the Design of Darusentan: An Effective Endothelin, Receptor Trials for the Assessment of Antihypertensive Antagonist for Treatment of Hypertension, 583 Drug Efficacy, 101 Effect of Ambient Temperature and Barometric Role of Vasopressin in 24-Hour Blood Pressure Pressure on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Regulation in Diabetic Patients With Variability, 941 Autonomic Neuropathy, 42 Effect of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockade on Serum Potassium Is Not Associated With Blood Arterial Stiffness: Beyond Blood Pressure Pressure Tracking in the Framingham Heart Reduction, 1092 Study, 130 Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Short- and Long-term Effects of Ferulic Acid on Therapy on 24-Hour Blood Pressure in Patients Blood Pressure in Spontaneously Hypertensive With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, 251 Rats, 351 Effect of Estrogen Receptor Modulator Tamoxifen Strategies to Meet Lower Blood Pressure Goals on Blood Pressure, Plasma Renin Activity, and With a New Standard in Angiotensin II Renal Sodium Excretion, 739 Receptor Blockade, 108S Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Blood T +31C Polymorphism of Angiotensinogen Gene Pressure: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized and Nocturnal Blood Pressure Decline: The Clinical Trials, 691 Ohasama Study, 628 Effects of Age, Ethnicity, Gender, Blood Pressure, Body mass index and Estrogen on Arterial Compliance, 358 “Gender Blind” Relationship of Lean Body Mass Effects of L-Arginine on Blood Pressure and and Blood Pressure in the Tecumseh Study, 258 Metabolic Changes in Fructose-Hypertensive Overexpression of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Rats, 72 Human Visceral Adipose Tissue in Normal and Evaluation of the Performance of a Wrist Blood Overweight Subjects, 381 Pressure Measuring Device With a Position Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Pulse Sensor Compared to Ambulatory 24-Hour Pressure in Older Adults With Isolated Systolic Blood Pressure Measurements, 787 Hypertension, 538 Genotypes of the BENaC Gene Have Little Transforming Growth Factor-61 Levels in Influence on Blood Pressure Level in the Hypertensive Patients: Association With Body Japanese Population, 189 Mass Index and Leptin, 759 How to Use Home Blood Pressure Monitors in Bone mineral density Clinical Practice, 93 Calcium, Hypertension and Loss of Bone Mineral Impaired Stress-Induced Pressure Natriuresis Density in Women (letter), 475 Increases Cardiovascular Load in African Brain natriuretic peptide American Youths, 903 Chronic Imidazoline Receptor Activation in Influence of Blood Pressure and Carbohydrate Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, 803 Tolerance on Vascular Compliance in Humans, 678 C Inhibition of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase During High Dietary Salt Intake, 230 Calcium Insights From Laragh’s Review Course: The Role Calcium, Hypertension and Loss of Bone Mineral of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Blood Density in Women (letter), 475 Pressure Regulation (editorial), 653 Link Between Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 SUBJECT INDEX 1127 Intracellular Calcium, Plasma Insulin, and in Cardiac Hypertrophy in Fructose-Fed Rats, Essential Hypertension, 291 66 Calcium channel(s) Cardiovascular disease Ramipril Treatment Alters Ca** and K* Channels Comparative Effects of the Dual ACE-NEP in Small Mesenteric Arteries From Wistar- Inhibitor MDL-100,240 and Ramipril on Kyoto and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease in 879 Endogenous Angiotensin II-Dependent Calcium channel blockers. See also Specific drug Hypertension, 181 Calcium Antagonists in Hypertension: From Hypertension Guidelines: Criteria That Might Make Hemodynamics to Outcomes, 94S Them More Clinically Useful, 917 Calcium-Channel Blockade and Cardiovascular Influence of Age, Risk Factors, and Cardiovascular Prognosis: Recent Evidence From Clinical and Renal Disease on Arterial Stiffness: Outcome Trials, 85S Clinical Applications, 1101 Effect of Amlodipine Compared to Atenolol on Prognostic Application of Arterial Stiffness: Task Small Arteries of Previously Untreated Forces, 754 Essential Hypertensive Patients, 105 Risk Stratification of Older Patients, 77S Improvement of Insulin Sensitivity By a Long- Cardiovascular system Acting Nifedipine Preparation (Nifedipine-CR) ACE Inhibition and Cardiovascular Mortality and in Patients With Essential Hypertension, 927 Morbidity in Essential Hypertension: The End Pedal Edema—Not All Dihydropyridine Calcium of the Search or a Need for Further Antagonists Are Created Equal, 1019 Investigations?, 367 Recent Landmark Clinical Trials: How Do They Calcium-Channel Blockade and Cardiovascular Modify the Therapeutic Paradigm?, 82S Prognosis: Recent Evidence From Clinical Reducing Cardiovascular and Cerebral Events Outcome Trials, 85S (Editorial), 75S Carotid artery Tolerability of Long-Term Treatment With Carotid Hemodynamic Alterations in Hypertensive Lercanidipine Versus Amlodipine and Patients With Insulin Resistance, 851 Lacidipine in Elderly Hypertensives, 932 Carotid atherosclerosis Candesartan Carotid Wall Thickening, Left Ventricular Comparative Effects of Candesartan and Enalapril Hypertrophy, and Insulin Resistance in Patients on Augmented Vasoconstrictive Responses to With Hypertension, 422 Endothelin-1 in Coronary Vessels of Case control studies Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, 286 Power and Replication in Case-Control Studies, 201 Comparison of Candesartan, Felodipine, and Their Central aortic pressure wave Combination in the Treatment of Elderly Amplitude and Timing of Central Aortic Pressure Patients With Systolic Hypertension, 544 Wave Reflections in Heart Transplant Captopril Recipients, 809 High Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism Using Cerebral events Postcaptopril Plasma Aldosterone to Renin Reducing Cardiovascular and Cerebral Events Ratio as a Screening Test Among Italian Hypertensive, 896 (Editorial), 75S Cerebrum Carbohydrate tolerance Correlation Between Silent Cerebral White Matter Influence of Blood Pressure and Carbohydrate Lesions and Left Ventricular Mass and Tolerance on Vascular Compliance in Humans, Geometry in Essential Hypertension, 507 678 Children Cardiac cells Leptin Affects Adenylate Cyclase Activity in H9c2 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Clinical Trials in Adults and Children, 38S Cardiac Cell Line: Effects of Short- and Long- Term Exposure, 638 Antihypertensive Therapy: Basic Pharmacokinetic Cardiac hypertrophy and Pharmacodynamic Principles as Applied to Cardiac and Vascular Fibrosis and Hypertrophy in Infants and Children, 34S Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Ambulatory Aldosterone-Infused Rats: Role of Endothelin-1, 164 Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children and Carotid Wall Thickening, Left Ventricular Adolescents, 64S Hypertrophy, and Insulin Resistance in Patients Cardiovascular Sequelae of Childhood With Hypertension, 422 Hypertension, 61S Renin-Angiotensin and Adrenergic Nervous System Childhood Blood Pressure Predicts Adult 1128 SUBJECT INDEX AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 Microalbuminuria in African Americans, But Macrovascular Complications in Type 2 Not in Whites: The Bogalusa Heart Study, 1036 Diabetes, 244 Effectiveness and Safety of the Angiotensin II Relationships Between New Risk Factors and Antagonist Irbesartan in Children With Chronic Circadian Rlood Pressure Variation in Kidney Diseases, 1057 Untreated Subjects With Essential Effect of Hypertension on the Progression of Hypertension, 600 Chronic Renal Failure in Children, 53S Climate Forgotten Korotkoff Phases: How Often Are Phases Effect of Ambient Temperature and Barometric II and III Present, and How Do They Relate to Pressure on Ambulatory Blood Pressure the Other Korotkoff Phases?, 264 Variability, 941 New Onset Severe Hypertension in an Clinical hypertension specialists Asymptomatic 6-Year-Old Girl, 99 American Society of Hypertension Regional Pharmacologic Management of Childhood Chapters: Leveraging the Impact of the Clinical Hypertension: Current Status, Future Hypertension Specialist in the Local Challenges, 30S Community, 372 Prevalence and Consequence of Systolic Clinical studies Hypertension in Children, 57S Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Polymorphisms in Reproducibility and Validity of Ambulatory Blood the Cardiovascular Health Study: Relation to Pressure Monitoring in Children, 69S Blood Pressure, Ethnicity, and Cardiovascular Chlamydia pneumoniae Events, 1050 Essential Hypertension Is Associated With Birth Weight as a Predictor of Future Hypertension, Chlamydia pneumoniae But Not Epstein-Barr 43S Antibodies (letter), 924 Childhood Blood Pressure Predicts Adult Chloride Microalbuminuria in African Americans, But Chloride Increases Adrenergic Receptor—Mediated Not in Whites: The Bogalusa Heart Study, 1036 Platelet and Vascular Responses, 492 Ethnicity and Unprovoked Hypokalemia in the Chlorthalidone ARIC Study (editorial), 660 Amlodipine Versus Chlorthalidone Versus Placebo Ethnicity and Unprovoked Hypokalemia in the in the Treatment of Stage I Isolated Systolic Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Hypertension, 31 594 Chondroitin sulfate “Gender Blind” Relationship of Lean Body Mass Early Onset of Chondroitin Sulfate and Osteopontin and Blood Pressure in the Tecumseh Study, 258 Expression in Angiotensin [I-Dependent Left Linkage of Left Ventricular Early Diastolic Peak Ventricular Hypertrophy, 644 Filling Velocity to Chromosome 5 in Chromosome 5 Hypertensive African Americans: The Linkage of Left Ventricular Early Diastolic Peak HyperGEN Echocardiography Study, 621 Filling Velocity to Chromosome 5 in Longitudinal Study of Ethnic Differences in Hypertensive African Americans: The Ambulatory Blood Pressure Patterns in Youth, HyperGEN Echocardiography Study, 621 525 Chronic renal failure Population-Based Studies Improve Outcome in Effect of Hypertension on the Progression of Hypertensive Patients, 605 Chronic Renal Failure in Children, 53S Power and Replication in Case-Control Studies, 201 Chronic renal insufficiency Relation of Insulin to Left Ventricular Geometry Blood Pressure and Angiotensin Converting and Function in African American and White Enzyme Inhibitor Use in Hypertensive Patients Hypertensive Adults: The HyperGEN Study, With Chronic Renal Insufficiency (letter), 832 1029 Circadian blood pressure Relationship of Waist Circumference to Blood Circadian Blood Pressure Overswinging in a Pressure: The Olivetti Heart Study, 780 Physically Fit, Normotensive African American Serum Potassium Is Not Associated With Blood Woman, 827 Pressure Tracking in the Framingham Heart Neurohumoral Characteristics of Older Hypertensive Study, 130 Patients With Abnormal Nocturnal Blood T +31C Polymorphism of Angiotensinogen Gene Pressure Dipping, 531 and Nocturnal Blood Pressure Decline: The Nighttime Blood Pressure Dipping: The Role of the Ohasama Study, 628 Sympathetic Nervous System, 111 Clinical trials Pulse Pressure and Diurnal Blood Pressure Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Clinical Variation: Association With Micro- and Trials in Adults and Children, 38S AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 SUBJECT INDEX 1129 Calcium-Channel Blockade and Cardiovascular CYP11B2 Prognosis: Recent Evidence From Clinical Aldosterone Synthase (CYP11B2) -344 C/T Outcome Trials, 85S Polymorphism Is Related to Antihypertensive Clinical Trials of Angiotensin Receptor Blockers in Response, 389 Heart Failure: What Do We Know and What -344 Cytosine/thymine polymorphism Will We Learn?, 22S Aldosterone Synthase (CYP11B2) -344 C/T Design of the Omapatrilat in Persons With Polymorphism Is Related to Antihypertensive Enhanced Risk of Atherosclerotic Events Response, 389 (OPERA) Trial, 193 Doxazosin and ALLHAT Trial: A Response (letter), D 832 Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Blood Darusentan Darusentan: An Effective Endothelin, Receptor Pressure: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials, 691 Antagonist for Treatment of Hypertension, 583 Diabetes mellitus Persistence of Normotension After Discontinuation Effects of Amlodipine Fosinopril Combination on of Lifestyle Intervention in the Trial of TONE, Microalbuminuria in Hypertensive Type 2 732 Diabetic Patients, 1042 PROGRESS Trial: Questions About the Elevated Plasma Endothelin-1 Levels in Diabetes Effectiveness of Angiotensin Converting Mellitus, 967. Enzyme Inhibitors, 472 Impaired Saline-Stimulated Diuresis and Natriuresis Recent Landmark Clinical Trials: How Do They in the Conscious Hypertensive Glucose- Modify the Therapeutic Paradigm?, 82S Intolerant Rat, 58 Coarctation of the aorta Influence of Blood Pressure and Carbohydrate Successful Balloon Angioplasty of Native Aortic Tolerance on Vascular Compliance in Humans, Coarctation in a Young Adult With Refractory 678 Hypertension, 1015 Losartan and Perindopril Effects on Plasma Cold Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 and Endothelial Dysfunction in Cold-Induced Fibrinogen in Hypertensive Type 2 Diabetic Hypertensive Rats, 176 Patients, 316 Role of Central Angiotensin II Receptors in Cold- Normal Perivascular Sensory Dilator Nerve Induced Hypertension, 85 Function in Arteries of Zucker Diabetic Fatty Continuous positive airway pressure Rats, 310 Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Pulse Pressure and Diurnal Blood Pressure Therapy on 24-Hour Blood Pressure in Patients Variation: Association With Micro- and With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, 251 Macrovascular Complications in Type 2 Coronary artery calcification Diabetes, 244 Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Coronary Artery Relation of Small Artery Compliance and Calcification in Middle-Aged and Younger Lipoprotein (a) in Patients With Adults, 518 Atherosclerosis, 980 Coronary artery disease Role of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers in Aortic Pulse Pressure and Extent of Coronary Preventing the Progression of Renal Disease in Artery Disease in Percutaneous Transluminal Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, 123S Coronary Angioplasty Candidates, 672 Role of Vasopressin in 24-Hour Blood Pressure Coronary flow reserve Regulation in Diabetic Patients With Positive Association Between Circulating Free Autonomic Neuropathy, 42 Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Levels and Diabetic nephropathy Coronary Flow Reserve in Arterial Systemic Angiotensin II Receptor Blockade in Diabetic Hypertension, 766 Nephropathy, 468 Coronary heart disease Dialysis Reflection in the Arterial System and the Risk of Large and Small Artery Compliance Changes Coronary Heart Disease, 405 During Hemodialysis, 236 Cyclic guanosine 3’5’ monophosphate Diastole Relaxation and cGMP Formation in Response to Correlation Between Diastolic Impairment and Sildenafil and Sodium Nitroprusside in Lipid Metabolism in Mild-to-Moderate Saphenous Veins From Normotensive and Hypertensive Postmenopausal Women, 615 Hypertensive Patients, 798 Linkage of Left Ventricular Early Diastolic Peak 1130 SUBJECT INDEX AJH-December 2002-VOL. 15, NO. 12 Filling Velocity to Chromosome 5 in Untreated Subjects With Essential Hypertensive African Americans: The Hypertension, 600 HyperGEN Echocardiography Study, 621 Dopamine Diastolic dysfunction Dopaminergic Modulation of Aldosterone Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Physiologic Secretions on Changes of Sodium Intake in and Pathologic Hypertrophy, 513 Aldosterone-Producing Adenoma, 609 Diet Doxazosin Decreases in Serum Uric Acid By Amelioration of Doxazosin and ALLHAT Trial: A Response (letter), Insulin Resistance in Overweight Hypertensive 832 Drospirenone/17-B-estradiol Patients: Effect of a Low-Energy Diet and an Additive Effect of Drospirenone/17-$-Estradiol in Insulin-Sensitizing Agent, 697 Dietary Sodium and Target Organ Damage in Hypertensive Postmenopausal Women Receiving Enalapril, 816 Essential Hypertension, 222 Drug interactions Excess Dietary Glucose Alters Renal Function Extent of Potential Antihypertensive Drug Before Increasing Arterial Pressure and Interactions in a Medicaid Population, 953 Inducing Insulin Resistance, 773 Drug trials Gender Difference in Diet-Induced Obesity Reproducibility of Home, Ambulatory, and Clinic Hypertension: Implication of Renal a,- Blood Pressure: Implications for the Design of Adrenergic Receptors, 143 Trials for the Assessment of Antihypertensive Inhibition of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Drug Efficacy, 101 During High Dietary Salt Intake, 230 Low-Calorie Diet Improves Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation in Obese Patients With Essential Hypertension, 302 Echocardiography Magnesium Deficiency During Pregnancy in Rats Positron Emission Tomography, Echo-Doppler, and Increases Systolic Blood Pressure and Plasma Exercise Studies of Functional Capacity in Nitrite, 1081] Hypertensive Heart Disease, 907 Dihydropyridine calcium antagonists Elderly Pedal Edema—Not All Dihydropyridine Calcium Ambulatory Pulse Pressure as Predictor of Outcome Antagonists Are Created Equal, 1019 in Older Patients With Systolic Hypertension, Dipping 835 Blunted Nighttime Blood Pressure Dipping in Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Polymorphisms in Postmenopausal Women (letter), 662 the Cardiovascular Health Study: Relation to Incomplete Benefit of Antihypertensive Therapy on Blood Pressure, Ethnicity, and Cardiovascular Stroke Reduction in Older Hypertensives With Events, 1050 Abnormal Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping Arterial Hypertension and Mortality in the Elderly, (Extreme-Dippers and Reverse-Dippers), 844 958 Neurohumoral Characteristics of Older Hypertensive Comparison of Candesartan, Felodipine, and Their Patients With Abnormal Nocturnal Blood Combination in the Treatment of Elderly Pressure Dipping, 531 Patients With Systolic Hypertension, 544 Nighttime Blood Pressure Dipping: The Role of the Correlates of Aortic Stiffness in Elderly Individuals: Sympathetic Nervous System, 111 A Subgroup of the Cardiovascular Health Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping and f- Study, 16 Adrenergic Receptor Sensitivity, 364 Incomplete Benefit of Antihypertensive Therapy on Diurnal blood pressure Stroke Reduction in Older Hypertensives With Neurohumoral Characteristics of Older Hypertensive Abnormal Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping Patients With Abnormal Nocturnal Blood (Extreme-Dippers and Reverse-Dippers), 844 Pressure Dipping, 531 Neurohumoral Characteristics of Older Hypertensive Nighttime Blood Pressure Dipping: The Role of the Patients With Abnormal Nocturnal Blood Sympathetic Nervous System, 111 Pressure Dipping, 531 Pulse Pressure and Diurnal Blood Pressure Population-Based Studies Improve Outcome in Variation: Association With Micro- and Hypertensive Patients, 605 Macrovascular Complications in Type 2 Prevalence of Hyperhomocysteinemia in an Elderly Diabetes, 244 Population, 394 Relationships Between New Risk Factors and Risk Stratification of Older Patients, 77S Circadian Blood Pressure Variation in Tolerability of Long-Term Treatment With