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Latino–White Disparities in Identification and Control of Elevated Blood Pressure Among Adults With Hypertension

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundStudies analyzing blood pressure (BP) management using the hypertension control cascade have consistently shown disparities in hypertension awareness, treatment, and BP control between Latino patients and non‐Latino White patients. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. 1.12], respectively).

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Potential Long-Term Benefit of Home Systolic Blood Pressure Below 125 mm?Hg for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: The J-HOP Study Extended

Hypertension Journal

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:The long-term benefit of achieving the Japanese Society of Hypertension home systolic blood pressure (SBP) target of <125 mm Hg has not been fully evaluated. Findings were similar in the subgroup of high-risk patients (those with diabetes or stroke history).CONCLUSIONS:These

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Are ambulatory blood pressure parameters associated more with central adiposity than with total adiposity? Results of the ELSA-Brasil study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Background Worldwide obesity has a high prevalence, as well as carries a high risk of several chronic diseases, including hypertension. Studies of the association between obesity and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) are scarce and most use only body mass index (BMI) as indicator of adiposity.

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Remembering CMHC Chair Dr. George L. Bakris: An Exceptional Leader, Mentor, and Educator in Nephrology and Hypertension 

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Bakris , an internationally recognized and influential nephrologist and hypertension expert, who passed away on June 15, 2024, at the age of 72. Bakris’s distinguished career in medicine spanned over four decades, marked by significant contributions to the fields of diabetic kidney disease, hypertension, and nephropathy progression.

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Recor Medical’s Paradise Renal Denervation System Lands FDA Approval

CardiacWire

That was a far stronger result than Medtronic’s RDN system, which fell short with a 6-to-7 vote, but is still seen by some as on a path towards FDA approval. That could be huge for these millions of patients, and for Recor Medical, which is now the clear frontrunner in what might prove to be a multi-billion dollar market.

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Systolic blood pressure at age 40 and 30-year stroke risk in men and women

Open Heart

Background American and European guidelines define hypertension differently and are sex agnostic. Our aim was to assess the impact of different hypertension thresholds at the age of 40 on 30-year stroke risk and to examine sex differences. Results The mean age was 40.1±0.3 women) and mean SBP was 128.3±13.5 ±13.5

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Part 1: Concepts, Indicator Variables, and Controversies The Annals of Thoracic Surgery January 2022 Arman Kilic Supplementing Existing Societal Risk Models for Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement With Machine Learning for Improved Prediction Journal of the American Heart Association November 2021 Jared Belle Strategies for Mechanical Right Ventricular (..)