ANTIOXIDANT STATUS AND URINARY STONE RISK FACTORS IN ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS AND EFFECT OF ORAL SUPPLEMENTATION OF VITAMIN E

Abstract

Hypertension is a disease state in which the arterial blood pressure exceeds newlineestablished norms, producing an increased morbidity and mortality. It has been called newline silent killer because patients with hypertension generally have no symptoms newlinewhatsoever, often for 15 20 years. Even without producing any symptoms, the disease newlineinsidiously causes cardiovascular disease and premature death. There is a very valid newlinereason for calling it silent killer newline newlineHypertension is defined as having systolic blood pressure 140 mm Hg or greater, newlineand/or having diastolic blood pressure 90 mm Hg or greater, and/or taking newlineantihypertensive medications (WHO, 1996). In the majority of cases of hypertension, so newlinecalled essential hypertension, the cause of the high blood pressure is not known. There newlineare no diagnostic biochemical features associated with this disease. newline newline newline