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Category Archives: Hypertension

Pediatric Blood Pressure Screening Practices in Canada: New Study Reveals Prevalence of Hypertension Among … – Medriva

Posted: Published on February 20th, 2024

A new study published in JAMA Network Open has shed light on the pediatric blood pressure (BP) screening practices in Canada, uncovering the prevalence of hypertension (HTN) among children, and the effectiveness of current hypertension guidelines. Led by senior author Rahul Chanchlani, MD, and his team, the study highlights a notable increase in pediatric blood pressure screening and hypertension prevalence after the introduction of the 2016 Hypertension Canada and 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for pediatric hypertension. The study, which involved 343,191 children and adolescents aged 3-17 years, discovered that the proportion of patients whose BP was documented at least once annually increased from 13.3% in 2011 to 20.2% in 2019 Continue reading

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Opinion | Primordial Prevention Can Protect Black Women’s Cardiovascular Health – Medpage Today

Posted: Published on February 20th, 2024

Osude is a cardiology fellow. The U.S. kicked off its 60th annual American Heart Month with the sobering news that Black women who have high blood pressure by age 35 face up to triple the risk of a stroke by the time they reach middle age compared with their peers without hypertension. Continue reading

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Differences in lobar microbleed topography in cerebral amyloid angiopathy and hypertensive arteriopathy | Scientific … – Nature.com

Posted: Published on February 20th, 2024

Patient selection We prospectively recruited patients who had suffered symptomatic spontaneous ICH for brain MRI and 11C-Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) PET scans at NTUH between September 2014 and October 2022 (Fig.1)11,12. We excluded patients with potential causes of secondary hemorrhage, including trauma, structural or vascular lesions, brain tumors, severe coagulopathy due to systemic disease or medication, or patients who suffered ischemic stroke with hemorrhagic transformation Continue reading

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Snoring and Hypertension: The Underlying Connection and Implications for Medical Care – Medriva

Posted: Published on February 20th, 2024

Have you ever wondered if your snoring could be more than just a nuisance to your partner? If so, youre not alone Continue reading

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Breaking Down Health Disparities with Digital Tools – Medriva

Posted: Published on February 20th, 2024

Breaking Down Health Disparities with Digital Tools Health disparities among marginalized communities have long been an issue of concern in the healthcare field. Continue reading

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DECIDE-Salt Study Finds Salt Substitutes Help to Maintain Healthy Blood Pressure in Older Adults – Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology

Posted: Published on February 20th, 2024

February 14, 2024 The replacement of regular salt with a salt substitute can reduce incidences of hypertension, or high blood pressure, in older adults without increasing their risk of low blood pressure episodes, according to a recent study published in the Feb. 2024 Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), an American College of Cardiology (ACC) journal. Researchers from Peking University Clinical Research Institute in Beijing, China found that people who used a salt substitute had a 40% lower incidence and likelihood of experiencing hypertension compared to those who used regular salt Continue reading

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Mineralys Therapeutics doses first patient in Hypertension trial – Clinical Trials Arena

Posted: Published on December 31st, 2023

US clinical-stage biotech firm, Mineralys Therapeutics, has announced that it has dosed the first patient as part of its trial investigating the treatment of lorundrostat for the treatment of uncontrolled hypertension (uHTN).The Launch-HTN trial (NCT06153693)is the second of two pivotal trials aimed at assessing the safety and efficacy of lorundrostat in combination with other background-prescribed treatments. The global, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled Phase III trial plans to enrol approximately 1,000 eligible adult participants who are failing to achieve their blood pressure goal on two to five background antihypertensive medications. These subjects will then be randomised to one of three arms: placebo, lorundrostat 50 mg once daily (QD), or lorundrostat 50 mg QD and then titrated to 100 mg QD, as needed, at week six. Continue reading

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Innovent and SanegeneBio Enter Strategic Collaboration to Develop siRNA Drug for the Treatment of Hypertension – PR Newswire

Posted: Published on December 31st, 2023

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Public Health hoping to address hypertension risks of Black residents with PACE program – Dayton Daily News

Posted: Published on December 31st, 2023

The program seeks to reduce the number of Black residents who have high blood pressure. Continue reading

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Elevated pregnancy blood pressure may leave lasting marks on the heart – News-Medical.Net

Posted: Published on December 31st, 2023

New research from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found that women who developed signs of elevated blood pressure during pregnancy were more likely to have residual evidence of abnormal heart structure and function up to a decade after the pregnancy. "This study helps to clarify that, for some women, pregnancy is not just a 'stress test' that unmasks underlying cardiovascular risks," said Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, the Erika J. Glazer Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Health and Population Science, director of the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging in the Department of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute, and senior author of the study Continue reading

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