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Medicine To Lower Blood Pressure Significantly Decreases Risk For Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke
A long-acting ACE inhibitor used to reduce blood pressure significantly decreased the risk for cardiovascular disease, including stroke, in normal weight, overweight and obese patients, according to research reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association...
DASH Diet, Exercise, Calorie Restriction May Help Improve Mental Function, Heart Health In Overweight, Hypertensive Adults
The DASH diet, combined with exercise and calorie restriction, improved mental functioning by 30 percent in overweight adults with high blood pressure compared to those who didn't diet or exercise, researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association...
Pycnogenol Lowers Elevated Urinary Protein Levels And Improves Blood Flow To The Kidneys
An estimated one in ten adults suffers from kidney disease, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. A leading cause of kidney disease is hypertension, which effects one out of every four U.S. adults...
In Obese, Overweight People, Weight-Loss Diets May Reverse Atherosclerosis
A low-carbohydrate diet, a low-fat diet and the Mediterranean diet were equally effective in helping obese people to reverse carotid atherosclerosis after losing moderate amounts of weight and improving their blood pressure, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association...
Blood Sugar Levels Once Considered Normal Are Not Safe For Baby, Mother
Two to three times more pregnant women may soon be diagnosed and treated for gestational diabetes, based on new measurements for determining risky blood sugar levels for the mother and her unborn baby, according to a study that was coordinated by investigators at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine...
Exploiting The Body's Own Ability To Fight A Heart Attack
Scientists trying to find a way to better help patients protect themselves against harm from a heart attack are taking their cues from cardiac patients. The work has its roots in a perplexing curiosity that physicians have long observed in their patients: When faced with a heart attack, people who have had a previous one oftentimes fare better than patients who have never had one...
Study Of Potential Rehab Following 'Mini Stroke'
Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIA) are often called "mini strokes" for good reasons -- the short-term symptoms can mimic a stroke and up to 10 percent of first-time sufferers often experience full-blown strokes within as little as 90 days. Despite the well-known statistics, no post-TIA regimen exists to help prevent future strokes -- but this might be changing...
Novel Ways To Limit Stroke Damage
Can using a simple blood-pressure cuff limit damage from strokes caused by decreased blood supply to the brain? An emerging field of study is working to see whether using this blood-pressure cuff or other methods of "training the brain" could help reduce damage from a stroke as it is occurring while a patient is being transported to the hospital...
25 Research Groups From 15 Countries Will Study A Severe Complication Of Diabetes And Hypertension
SysKid, a large-scale integrating European research project, aims at understanding chronic kidney disease in the context of diabetes and hypertension...
Black Women At Increased Risk For Weakened Heart Muscle At Childbirth
Black women are at significantly increased risk for developing a potentially deadly weakening of the heart muscle around the time of childbirth, researchers report...
Statement By American Heart Association President Clyde Yancy, M.D. On IOM Report On Hypertension
Millions of Americans are living with hypertension -- a ticking time bomb. From the age of 50 and onward, Americans have a 90 percent chance of developing hypertension. That is a startling risk for a condition that strongly predisposes to heart disease and stroke...
IOM Report Declares High Blood Pressure A Neglected Disease
Public health officials and health care providers need to step up their efforts to reduce Americans' increasing rates of high blood pressure and better treat those with the condition, which triggers more than one-third of heart attacks and almost half of heart failures in the United States each year, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine...
IOM Report On Reducing Hypertension Releases Feb. 22
High blood pressure is the second leading cause of death in the United States, triggering more than one-third of heart attacks and almost half of heart failures each year even though it is relatively easy to prevent and inexpensive to treat...
Blood Pressure, Sleep And Mental Health Improve With Flexible Working Arrangements
There is evidence to suggest that flexible working might be beneficial for employees' health if they are allowed to have input into their own working patterns, a review by Cochrane Researchers suggests. The study may throw some light on potential health benefits associated with current trends towards more flexible working in the UK and Europe...
NIH Grant Will Examine Preeclampsia, Gestational Diabetes In Pregnant Women With Hypertension Or Obesity
The link between obesity and high-risk pregnancies caused by preeclampsia and diabetes will be the focus of a $2.4 million National Institutes of Health research grant received by Sean Blackwell, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Sean Blackwell, M.D...
FDA Approves Benicar(R) For The Treatment Of High Blood Pressure In Children And Adolescents Aged 6-16
Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the hypertension treatment Benicar® (olmesartan medoxomil) for use in children and adolescents 6 to 16 years of age.(1) Benicar was originally approved in 2002 for the treatment of hypertension in adults. Approximately 5 percent or 3...
Compound Shows Promise Against Intractable Heart Failure
A chemical compound found normally in the blood has shown promise in treating and preventing an intractable form of heart failure in a mouse model of the disease, report researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. The study is published in the February issue of Circulation...
Early Life Stress May Predict Cardiovascular Disease
Early life stress could be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in adulthood, researchers report. "We think early life stress increases sensitivity to a hormone known to increase your blood pressure and increases your cardiovascular risk in adult life," said Dr...
Hypertension May Predict Dementia In Older Adults With Certain Cognitive Deficits
High blood pressure appears to predict the progression to dementia in older adults with impaired executive functions (ability to organize thoughts and make decisions) but not in those with memory dysfunction, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
Sagent Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Approval Of Labetalol Hydrochloride Injection, USP
Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that it has received FDA approval of labetalol hydrochloride (HCl) injection, USP, commonly used to control severe hypertension. The product will be available in two vial sizes 100 mg per 20 mL and 200 mg per 40 mL, multi-dose vials...
Test Developed At Yale Can Help Predict And Diagnose Preeclampsia
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a simple urine test to rapidly predict and diagnose preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy. Dubbed the "Congo Red Dot Test" by the research team, the test accurately predicted preeclampsia in a study of 347 pregnant women, allowing health care providers to offer better preventive care to pregnant women...
Central Blood Pressure A Superior Determinant Of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
AtCor Medical (ASX: ACG), the developer and marketer of the SphygmoCor® system, which measures central blood pressure and arterial stiffness noninvasively, announced the publication of a new NIH-funded study*, published in the Journal of Hypertension, found that central (aortic) blood pressure, measured noninvasively with AtCor's SphygmoCor system, is a more important indic...
Blood Pressure-Lowering Diet Appears More Effective When Combined With Other Interventions
Combining an anti-hypertension diet with exercise and weight loss counseling may result in increased reduction in high blood pressure along with other benefits. James A. Blumenthal, Ph.D., of Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., and colleagues studied 144 overweight or obese patients with high blood pressure...
Play Yourself Healthy
A just published research experiment on inactive men with high blood pressure shows that just 3 months of soccer practise twice a week causes a significant fall in blood pressure, resting pulse rate, and percentage of body fat, and is more effective than the doctor's usual advice on healthy diet and exercise...
Diabetes Patients Rank Health Concerns Differently Than Their Doctors, U-M Survey Shows
About one-third of doctors and their patients with diabetes do not see eye to eye on the most important health conditions to manage, according to a survey by the University of Michigan Medical School...
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