by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Wikimedia Commons Elevated blood pressure can cause a condition known as perivascular fibrosis, where the outside wall of a blood vessel thickens due to connective tissue build-up. Although recent data has suggested that the thickening is due to the activation of T-cells, the defenders of our immune system, the...
Iain M. MacIntyre, Emma J. Turtle, Tariq E. Farrah, Catriona Graham, James W. Dear and David J. Webband for the PATH-BP (Paracetamol in Hypertension–Blood Pressure) Investigators Abstract Background: Acetaminophen is widely used as first-line therapy for chronic pain because of its perceived safety and the assumption that, unlike nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, it has little or...
by University of Maine Credit: CC0 Public Domain Using B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels is an effective means of reducing blood pressure and may be especially useful in the management of drug-resistant hypertension, according to researchers at the University of Maine and University of Arkansas. UMaine emeritus professor of psychology Merrill Elias, who also...
WILEY Hypertension may double an adult’s risk of developing epilepsy, according to a new study published in Epilepsia. In the study of 2,986 U.S. adults with an average age of 58 years, 55 new cases of epilepsy were identified during an average follow-up of 19 years. Hypertension, defined as presence of elevated blood pressure or use...
UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND IMAGE: ATHEROSCLEROTIC TRAITS REFERRED TO AS ARTERIAL STIFFNESS SEEM TO INDEPENDENTLY CAUSE ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE AND HYPERTENSION AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS. THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION AMONG THE YOUNG POPULATION SHOULD INCLUDE STRATEGIES TO DECREASE ARTERIAL STIFFNESS. CREDIT: ANDREW AGBAJE Arterial stiffness is a novel risk factor to be...
Hypertension may double an adult’s risk of developing epilepsy, according to a new study published in Epilepsia. In the study of 2,986 U.S. adults with an average age of 58 years, 55 new cases of epilepsy were identified during an average follow-up of 19 years. Hypertension, defined as presence of elevated blood pressure or use of...
IMAGE: ATHEROSCLEROTIC TRAITS REFERRED TO AS ARTERIAL STIFFNESS SEEM TO INDEPENDENTLY CAUSE ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE AND HYPERTENSION AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS. THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION AMONG THE YOUNG POPULATION SHOULD INCLUDE STRATEGIES TO DECREASE ARTERIAL STIFFNESS. CREDIT: ANDREW AGBAJE Arterial stiffness is a novel risk factor to be targeted for preventing and...
DALLAS, Sept. 27, 2021 — Women ages 70 and older and men ages 20-49 were more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension despite taking blood pressure-lowering medications, according to new research presented today at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2021. The meeting is the premier scientific exchange focused on recent advances in basic and clinical research on...
DALLAS, Sept. 27, 2021 — Adults who needed to track their blood pressure regularly to confirm or refute a hypertension diagnosis preferred monitoring blood pressure at home versus at a clinic, kiosk or with a 24-hour wearable device, according to preliminary research presented today at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2021. The meeting is the...
by Marla Paul, Northwestern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hypertension that leads to vascular dementia in older adults begins to impact the brain by middle age, reports a large new Northwestern Medicine study published in PNAS, the first to show the process begins so early. But in some middle-aged individuals with this damage, their brains reorganize to...
