The MobileHealth Wireless Bluetooth Blood Pressure Monitor takes advantage of the latest technology to keep your health in check. It’s ideal for those who have the need to keep an eye on their blood pressure wherever they go. It serves as your personal health monitor so that all your data can now be kept in...
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Could switching blood pressure medication timing extend your life?
More than seven years ago, a big health finding reported on in a peer-reviewed journal went largely unnoticed. The BedMed study, led by a U of A researcher, will look at the purported health benefits—and potential risks—of having patients take blood pressure medication at bedtime instead of daytime. Credit: University of Alberta “Spanish chronobiologists found...
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Pancreatic cancer: Some blood pressure drugs put women at risk
New research suggests that certain blood pressure drugs may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in postmenopausal women. pancreatic cancer, a new study suggests. Zhensheng Wang, a postdoctoral researcher at the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, along with his colleagues, set out to examine the effects...
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Changing how blood pressure is measured will save lives
Traditional methods of testing for high blood pressure are no longer adequate and risk missing vital health signs, which can lead to premature death, a study co-led by UCL has found. The research, the largest ever cohort study of its kind, published in the New England Journal for Medicine, assessed 63,000 doctors’ patients, who had their blood...
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Increase in heart rate as blood pressure falls could be early sign of neurological disease
A simple bedside test that matches a change in heart rate with a drop in blood pressure after a patient stands may help doctors diagnose certain degenerative brain diseases. This is the finding of a study led by neurologists at NYU School of Medicine and published in the March issue of Annals of Neurology. The test...
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Odds Are, They’re Taking Your Blood Pressure All Wrong
Emily Blair, a medical assistant at the Colon, Stomach and Liver Center in Lansdowne, Va., takes a blood pressure reading for Robert Koenen. New guidelines say that patients should have their arm resting on a surface while taking a reading and both feet should be placed flat on the ground. When was the last time...
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Topical gel made from oral blood pressure drugs shown effective in healing chronic wounds
IMAGE: WOUND. An international team of researchers led by Johns Hopkins has shown that a topical gel made from a class of common blood pressure pills that block inflammation pathways speeds the healing of chronic skin wounds in mice and pigs. A report of the findings, published Oct. 16 in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, marks efforts...
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Common blood pressure drug could halt progression of Alzheimer’s – and scientists need volunteers for a new £2m trial
Losartan could reduce brain shrinkage which occurs with incurable condition We already know people with high blood pressure have raised risk of Alzheimer’s But some are protected by the blood pressure drugs they take, past study found The group of inhibitors losartan belongs to cuts disease risk by up to 50% New study to test if drug helps...
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Smaller dose combos of blood pressure meds may be effective with fewer side effects
Quarter-dose combinations of blood pressure lowering medications appear to be effective in treating hypertension and result in fewer side effects for patients than a single dose of one drug, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension. “Widespread control of blood pressure is generally low, even in high-income countries. The largest global survey of hypertension...
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Dizziness in Parkinson’s may be due to Cerebral Hypoperfusion
A study published in the Journal of Clinical ultrasound claims that cerebral hypoperfusion contributes to dizziness in patients with Parkinson’s disease even without Orthostatic hypotension. Jinse Park, M.D from Inje University in Busan, South Korea and colleagues conducted transcranial doppler and blood pressure monitoring for 10 minutes during the head-up tilt test in PD patients...