Archive for the ‘Hypertension’ Category
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
For the first time, the American Heart Association has issued guidelines to help patients and healthcare providers tackle resistant high blood pressure that seems to defy treatment.The guidelines are published online in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. This is the first consensus statement to define resistant hypertension and ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The results of the landmark ONTARGET(TM) trial have demonstrated that MICARDIS(R) (telmisartan), a second-generation angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB), is equally effective as the current standard, ramipril, in reducing the risk of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke and hospitalization for congestive heart failure in a broad cross-section of high-risk ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Interim results from the ACCOMPLISH (Avoiding Cardiovascular Events through COMbination Therapy in Patients LIving with Systolic Hypertension) trial demonstrate that high-risk, high blood pressure patients treated with Lotrel(R) (amlodipine besylate and benazepril HCl) had 20% fewer cardiovascular events than those taking a benazepril and hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) combination. This is the ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Adding the relaxation response, a stress-management approach, to other lifestyle interventions may significantly improve treatment of the type of hypertension most common in the elderly. Among participants in a study conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Hypertension Program and the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at MGH, those ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The American Physiological Society has awarded Michigan State University Professor Stephanie W. Watts the 2008 Henry Pickering Bowditch Memorial Award for early-career achievement. The award goes to a scientist younger than 42 years whose accomplishments are both original and outstanding. It is the Society's second-highest award Dr. Watts, a ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Individuals who have one or two parents with hypertension appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing elevated blood pressure throughout their adult lives, according to a report in the March 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Adults with hypertension may be able to lower their weight and their blood pressure by following a weight-loss diet or using the medication orlistat, according to a meta-analysis of previously published studies reported in the March 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. High ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Blacks with a "suspicious, hostile personality" have higher blood pressure than whites with the same tendencies, according to a report presented on Friday at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Baltimore, USA Today reports. Significant variations in blood pressure, as well as a person's tendency toward suspicious and hostile behavior, ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Smoking and high blood pressure are a deadly combination that dramatically increase the risk of a blood vessel bursting inside the brain, Australian research shows. High blood pressure and smoking are known to increase the risk of heart diseases, but Sydney researchers have shown that the two have a stronger ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Dr Isabel Lee, Research Liaison Officer at The Stroke Association said:"The research in this weeks Lancet is very promising and there is certainly potential for an immunisation to control blood pressure particularly in young people as they are more likely to respond. "One hundred and fifty thousand people in ...
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