by Venus Islas, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Credit: CC0 Public Domain Adolescents who meet the recommended guidelines of 9 to 11 hours of sleep per day were shown to have a significantly lower risk of hypertension in a new study from UTHealth Houston. ADVERTISING Recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the...
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Causal relationship seen between GERD and hypertension
by Lori Solomon There is a positive causal relationship between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and hypertension, according to a study published online Sept. 23 in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. Weige Li, from the Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine in Nanchang, China, and colleagues investigated the causal relationship between GERD and hypertension using a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis. The researchers reported...
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Lukewarm outlook for hypertension technology
Digital health evaluation nonprofit the Peterson Health Technology Institute takes aim at the burgeoning market for hypertension treatment and management in its latest report, and it isn’t all good news for the companies hawking digital blood pressure cuffs, remotely observing levels, managing patients’ medication regimens, and using technology to nudge patients to change their habits such as diet or...
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Study links polygenic scores to hypertension treatment outcomes
by Justin Jackson , Medical Xpress Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have discovered that a genetic risk score can predict how Black individuals with hypertension respond to the blood pressure medication chlorthalidone and their likelihood of developing treatment-resistant hypertension. In a genetic association study, “Utility of a Systolic Blood Pressure...
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Early rheumatoid arthritis tied to hypertension
Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a high incidence of prevalent and incident hypertension, according to a study published online in the August issue of Rheumatology: Advances in Practice. Brook Hadwen, from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and colleagues used data from the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort to explore the prevalence and incidence of hypertension and...
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New Hypertension Approach Hits Multiple Targets at Low Dose
Medscape Medical News > Conference News > ESC 2024 Sue Hughes September 27, 2024 LONDON — Single-pill combinations that include three or four antihypertensive medications are the way forward for the management of patients with elevated blood pressure, according to experts evaluating the new approach. This multidrug strategy — in which ultralow-dose triple combinations can...
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Examining the hypertension control cascade in adults with uncontrolled hypertension in the US
News Release 11-Sep-2024 JAMA Network Open Peer-Reviewed PublicationJAMA Network About The Study: In this cross-sectional study, more than 50% of adults with uncontrolled hypertension in the U.S. were unaware of their hypertension and were untreated, and 70.8% of those who were treated had hypertension that remained uncontrolled. These findings have serious implications for the nation’s...
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Investigators identify novel plasma proteins linked to future risk of hypertension
JULY 2, 2024 by Jacqueline Mitchell, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from PexelsExercise testing can serve as a powerful physiologic probe to unmask subclinical cardiovascular abnormalities well before disease onset. For example, blood pressure changes during exercise (EBP) can reveal a latent tendency toward future development of hypertension. At present, there is...
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Vigorous exercise may preserve cognition in high-risk patients with hypertension
JUNE 6, 2024 by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Richard Kazibwe, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Credit: Wake Forest University School of MedicinePeople with high blood pressure have a higher risk of cognitive impairment, including dementia, but a new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School...
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Hormone replacement therapy may improve pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular function – cardiology
by American Thoracic Society The use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may be associated with improved pulmonary hypertension in women. Credit: ATSThe use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may be associated with improved pulmonary hypertension in women, according to research presented at the ATS 2024 International Conference held May 17–22 in San Diego. Pulmonary hypertension...