Renal denervation for hypertension continues its comeback tour after bombing in a 2014 trial. New evidence suggests that it can augment the blood pressure (BP) reductions achieved with aggressively stepped-up antihypertensive therapy in patients who hadn’t responded well to first-line…
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AMA Announces New Effort to Standardize Training in BP Measurement
The American Medical Association (AMA) has launched a new effort aimed at ensuring future physicians and healthcare professionals receive appropriate training on how to consistently take accurate blood pressure (BP) measurements. “We know that inaccurate blood pressure measurements are linked…
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Will Scans Help Boost Detection of Resistant Hypertension?
A noninvasive imaging method for identifying whether the source of a patient’s primary aldosteronism is from unilateral or bilateral adrenal adenomas worked as well as the standard method, invasive adrenal vein sampling, in a head-to-head comparison with 143 patients. The…
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Prescription Pad a ‘Lethal Weapon’ for MD Indicted for Murder
A New York physician has been indicted on five counts of murder, with prosecutors alleging he demonstrated a depraved indifference to human life when he prescribed opioids and other drugs to patients who professed substance use disorders and later overdosed….
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Reverse BP Dipping Tied to Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease in Older Men
(Reuters Health) – Older men with higher systolic blood pressure at night than during the day have an increased risk of developing any dementia as well as Alzheimer’s disease in particular, a Swedish study suggests. Researchers examined data on about…
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High blood pressure: Chinese cat’s claw may relax your blood vessels – what is it?
High blood pressure: Lifestyle changes to reduce reading High blood pressure is a pernicious condition whereby the pressure that pushes blood through your blood vessels is consistently too high. As the American Heart Association (AHA) explains, the primary way that…
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An acebuchin-oil-enriched diet helps to reduce hypertension
An acebuchin-oil-enriched diet helps to reduce arterial blood pressure, as shown by a study carried out by the Cardiovascular Physiopathology research group at the Physiology Department of the University of Seville. Furthermore, their work shows that acebuche oil has a…
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The natural seed oil proven to significantly lower high blood pressure
High blood pressure, medically known as hypertension, means the force of blood pushing against your artery walls is consistently too high. As the British Heart Foundation (BHF) explains, although your arteries are stretchy to cope with your blood pressure going…
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Kids with white-coat hypertension might be at risk for eventual progression to sustained high blood
Children and adolescents diagnosed with white coat hypertension might be at risk for eventual progression to sustained hypertension and should be monitored regularly, according to new research to be presented Sept. 10-13, 2020, at the virtual American Heart Association’s Hypertension…
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High blood pressure warning: The fuzzy feeling you should never ignore
High blood pressure is a common condition that affects more than a quarter of all adults in the UK. You could be at risk of hypertension if you regularly feel dizzy, it’s been claimed. High blood pressure – which is…
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