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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

Objectives To determine the clinical profile, according to the history of hypertension, the risk of developing hypertension, current antihypertensive treatment and BP control rates in patients with hypertension from the IBERICAN cohort. This analysis shows the baseline clinical characteristics of patients with hypertension.

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New Study to Examine Hypercortisolism in Resistant Hypertension

DAIC

will establish the prevalence of endogenous hypercortisolism in patients with resistant hypertension. Resistant hypertension is defined by the American Heart Association as elevated blood pressure despite the use of three or more antihypertensive medications in different classes, including a diuretic.

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Understanding the hidden burden: prevalence and factors linked to left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive patients receiving care in Harari region, Ethiopia

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundLeft ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is often a complication of hypertension and an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. In Ethiopia, there is a scarcity of data on the prevalence and associated factors of left ventricular hypertrophy among hypertensive adults. p-values of <0.05 in the study population.

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Gastric Bypass Surgery’s Durable Hypertension Impact

CardiacWire

The associations between obesity and hypertension are widely known, but a new JACC study reveals that weight-reducing gastric bypass surgery has a significant and lasting impact on patients’ need for antihypertensives. vs. 2.4%) All gastric bypass patients eliminated their resistant hypertension (from 15.2%

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Blood Pressure Control Target in Diabetes

American College of Cardiology

The goal of the BPROAD trial was to determine the efficacy and safety of an intensive blood pressure (BP)-lowering strategy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension with respect to future cardiovascular disease (CVD) events.

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Detecting heart stress using NT-proBNP in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension or high-normal blood pressure: a cross-sectional multicentric study

Cardiovascular Diabetology

We evaluated the prevalence of “heart stress” (HS) based on NT-proBNP cut-points proposed by the 2023 Consensus of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in asymptomati.

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Self-Measured Blood Pressure–Guided Pharmacotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of US-Based Telemedicine Trials

Hypertension Journal

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. RESULTS:Thirteen, 11, and 7 trials were eligible for systolic and diastolic BP difference and BP control, respectively.