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Gastric Bypass Surgery’s Durable Hypertension Impact

CardiacWire

BMI) to receive Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and medical therapy or only receive medical therapy, finding that after five years… Far more gastric bypass patients cut their BP medication use by at least 30% (80.7% The GATEWAY trial assigned 100 participants (76% women, 43.8 of them achieved BPs below 130/80 mm Hg (vs.

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Mineralys Therapeutics Announces Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Lorundrostat

DAIC

This program aligns with our strategy to develop lorundrostat in conditions driven by dysregulated aldosterone, with poor cardiovascular outcomes and few treatment options, stated Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer of Mineralys Therapeutics. The primary outcome measure is absolute change in the frequency of apnea-hypopnea episodes.

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Examining the causal association between moderate alcohol consumption and cardiovascular risk factors in the Taiwan Biobank: a Mendelian randomization analysis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundThe Mendelian randomization approach uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to study the causal association between the risk factors and health outcomes of interest. ResultsIn the rs1229984-instrumented analysis, alcohol drinking was only associated with higher levels of SBP in men and lower levels of DBP in women.

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Abstract WP282: Association of Very Short Interval Blood Pressure Variability With Stroke

Stroke Journal

Background:While blood pressure variability (BPV) is associated with poor cardiovascular outcomes, the relationship between BPV obtained in a very short interval and stroke is unknown. After adjusting for age, gender, race, ethnicity, and BMI, the odds of stroke were 2.8%

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Bariatric Surgery Leads to Better Cardiovascular Function in Pregnancy

Heart 2023 Conference

Pregnant females with a record of bariatric surgical operation have higher cardiovascular adaptation to being pregnant in contrast with females who have comparable early-pregnancy physique mass index (BMI) however no records of weight loss surgery, new records suggest.

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Creative Alliances in Cardiorenal Metabolic Management: A Game Changer (Part 2) 

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Real-World Cardiorenal Metabolic Management Cases Case Study 1: The Multidisciplinary Advantage A groundbreaking study compared outcomes between multi-ethnic patients treated by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) and those managed solely by primary care providers (PCPs).

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Physiology Friday #197: Do Morning Workouts Maximize the Cardiometabolic Benefits of Exercise?

Physiologically Speaking

Clinically, about 1/3 of adults have metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions including abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood glucose, high triglycerides, and low HDL cholesterol. cm for the AMEX and PMEX groups, respectively, while the change in mean arterial pressure was 4.9 cm and 1.9 mmHg and 2.3