Blood pressure, antihypertensive treatment and factors associated with good blood pressure control in hypertensive diabetics: the Tarmidas study.

Numerous population studies confirm the high prevalence of hypertension in type II diabetic (DM2) subjects and that intensive antihypertensive treatment is more beneficial to diabetic than to nondiabetic hypertensive subjects, yet not many of these are specific to Spain. To assess the degree of blood pressure (BP) control and the effects of antihypertensive drugs in the medical management of hypertension in diabetic patients in specialist care centres throughout Spain, we studied the socio-demographic, clinical and relevant laboratory parameters of 796 hypertensive patients with DM2 (mean age 66.09 (95% confidence interval (CI): 64.

Nandrolone decanoate is a good alternative for the treatment of anemia in elderly male patients on hemodialysis.

Objective: To assess the efficiency of nandrolone decanoate (ND) in the control of anemia in elderly male patients on hemodialysis (HD), and to determine its influence on nutritional parameters.

Design: A prospective 6-month study with randomization of patients on recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) therapy into two groups. Group A: rHuEPO was stopped before starting treatment with ND.

[Primary empty sella turcica: clinical aspects and hormonal study of 15 cases].

The goal pursued has been to analyze clinical observations and hormonal studies of patients with empty sella turcica (EST), in order to review this disorder and determine if it can be considered a real syndrome. Fifteen patients with EST (3 men and 12 women) and mean age of 45.6 +/- 17.

Ectopic Cushing's syndrome with periodic hormonogenesis--a case suggesting a pathogenetic mechanism.

We report on a case of ectopic Cushing's syndrome due to a thymic carcinoid tumour with periodic hormonogenesis. Periods of hormonal production averaged 27 days. Prior to bilateral adrenalectomy, mean (s.