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AI-powered tool may offer quick, no-contact blood pressure and diabetes screening

American Heart News - Heart News

Research Highlights: A preliminary study combining a patent-applied, AI-powered algorithm with a high-speed, 5-to 30-second video of skin on the face and the palm of the hand detected if someone had high blood pressure as well as using a blood.

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Childhood stress linked to higher risk of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes in adults

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Young adults who reported higher stress as adolescents were more likely to have high blood pressure, obesity and other cardiometabolic risk factors as adults, finds new study.

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Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

The New England Journal of Medicine

In this trial, patients with type 2 diabetes had a lower incidence of major cardiovascular outcomes with a systolic blood-pressure target of less than 120 mm Hg than with a target of less than 140 mm Hg.

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New Study Finds Tirzepatide Use Lowered Blood Pressure in Patients with Obesity

HCPLive

Tirzepatide, a dual GLP-1/GIP agonist approved for diabetes and obesity, was associated with significant blood pressure reductions in an analysis of the SURMOUNT-1 trial.

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Intensive Blood Pressure Regimen Lowers CVD Risk in People with T2D

HCPLive

Reducing systolic blood pressure to less than 120 mmHg lowered the risk of major cardiovascular events for most people with diabetes in the BPROAD trial.

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Intensive Blood Pressure Control Benefits People With Type 2 Diabetes Too

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- The cardiovascular outcome benefit of a tighter systolic blood pressure target was affirmed in patients with type 2 diabetes in the randomized BPROAD trial from China. A target of less than 120 mm Hg reduced a composite.

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Clinical characteristics, treatment, and blood pressure control in patients with hypertension seen by primary care physicians in Spain: the IBERICAN study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

The risk of hypertension increased with the presence of associated CV risk factors and comorbidities, particularly diabetes, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, and decreased with the intensity of physical activity. These patients were older (65.8 ± 10.9 vs. 51.6 ± 14.7 Regarding antihypertensive treatments, 6.1% two drugs, and 19.6%