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MIBHS
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a common condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Understanding how high blood pressure impacts your heart and learning to manage it can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease and improve your overall health. What Is High Blood Pressure?
American Heart News - Heart News
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Research Highlights: The weight loss medication tirzepatide significantly lowered the systolic blood pressure of nearly 500 adults who had obesity and took the medication for 36 weeks, or about eight months, in a subset of an international clinical.
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American Heart News - Heart News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Research Highlights: In an analysis of 18 randomized clinical trials, people with obesity and high blood pressure who underwent bariatric (weight-loss) surgery were almost three times more likely to achieve blood pressure remission, defined as.
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Science Daily - Heart Disease
JANUARY 17, 2024
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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HCPLive
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
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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Science Daily - Heart Disease
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Weight loss medication reduced both day and nighttime blood pressure levels, finds new study.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
MARCH 14, 2025
This study aims to investigate the impact of weight loss after LSG on the left ventricular myocardial work (LVMW) in obese patients and explore the clinical value of the left ventricular pressure - strain loop (LV - PSL).MethodsThirty
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American Heart News - Heart News
JANUARY 17, 2024
Research Highlights: Consistently high scores of perceived stress during adolescence through adulthood may contribute to worse cardiometabolic health including obesity in young adults. Researchers suggest the adoption of healthy coping strategies.
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Science Daily - Heart Disease
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Bariatric surgery is more effective in controlling hypertension rates, or high blood pressure, in people with obesity and uncontrolled high blood pressure compared to blood pressure medication alone, according to a new study.
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Medical Xpress - Cardiology
JANUARY 17, 2024
Young adults who reported higher stress during their teenage years to adulthood were more likely to have high blood pressure, obesity and other cardiometabolic risk factors than their peers who reported less stress, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Dr. Paddy Barrett
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Normal Blood Pressure. A study of almost 10,000 adults with obesity (BMI >30) who were evaluated for all LE8 factors and followed for over 7 years can give us some insight 1. Can we take the obesity risk off the table also? Not smoking. Adequate Sleep. Normal Cholesterol Levels. No Diabetes or Pre-Diabetes.
Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology
DECEMBER 15, 2023
How these conditions are linked mechanistically remains unclear, especially two of these: obesity and elevated blood pressure. Pharmacological prevention of lipid droplet formation reverses the suppression of NO production in cell culture and in vivo and blunts blood pressure elevation in response to a high-fat diet.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DECEMBER 20, 2023
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%
134 Medical Xpress - Cardiology
MARCH 31, 2024
Children and teenagers living with overweight or obesity are more likely to have high blood pressure as adults (aged 50–64 years), suggesting the processes behind the condition could begin as early as childhood, suggests new research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy (12-15 May).
Dr. Paddy Barrett
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
low cholesterol), the total score can easily be taken to greater than 10 with other risk factors, including high blood pressure, obesity, inactivity, smoking etc. Overweight but not obese and a systolic blood pressure of 135 mmHg (Not very high but certainly not ideal). For Reference Lp(a) is Normal.
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American Heart News - Heart News
JUNE 4, 2024
ET Tuesday, June 4, 2024 DALLAS, June 4, 2024 — Driven by an older, more diverse population, along with a significant increase in risk factors including high blood pressure and obesity, total costs related to.
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Circulation
JANUARY 27, 2025
METHODS:The AHA, through its Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee, continuously monitors and evaluates sources of data on heart disease and stroke in the United States and globally to provide the most current information available in the annual Statistical Update with review of published literature through the year before writing.
Science Daily - Heart Disease
JUNE 4, 2024
Driven by an older, more diverse population, along with a significant increase in risk factors including high blood pressure and obesity, total costs related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) conditions are likely to triple by 2050, according to recent projections. At least 6 in 10 U.S.
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Cardiometabolic Health Congress
JANUARY 3, 2024
In today’s society, the prevalence of obesity has become a significant concern. have obesity, and this rate has increased by more than 10 percentage points in the past two decades. Understanding the prevalence of obesity is crucial in comprehending why events like Healthy Weight Week are essential. of adults in the U.S.
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American Heart News - Heart News
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Research Highlights: Heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity were more common and linked to reduced access to healthy food among people who lived in neighborhoods previously subjected to structural racism-based policies that.
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Heart BMJ
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Background Treating obesity may be a pathway to prevent and control hypertension. In the SURMOUNT-1 trial in people with obesity or overweight with weight-related complications, 72-week tirzepatide treatment led to clinically meaningful body weight and blood pressure reduction. mm Hg systolic and 4.2
DAIC
JUNE 18, 2024
A projected rise in heart disease and stroke – along with several key risk factors, including high blood pressure and obesity – is likely to triple related costs to $1.8 According to their projections, from 2020 to 2050, high blood pressure is expected to rise from 51.2% to 61% of the U.S. population. population.
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Science Daily - Heart Disease
JANUARY 17, 2025
These findings may inform efforts to prevent excessive weight gain early in life, a risk factor for adult obesity and related conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Take a 40-year-old male who is overweight but not obese, has a systolic blood pressure of 135 mmHg and an LDL cholesterol of 4.1 If you take the exact same person and now correct their blood pressure into the 120 mmHg systolic range and measure their Lp(a), which, if elevated, changes the potential outcomes dramatically.
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CardiacWire
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
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. The GATEWAY trial assigned 100 participants (76% women, 43.8 of them achieved BPs below 130/80 mm Hg (vs.
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
AUGUST 9, 2024
The 14 Factors Include: Hearing Loss High LDL cholesterol Less Education Traumatic Brain Injury Depression Social Isolation Hypertension Obesity Smoking Excess Alcohol Diabetes Physical Inactivity Air Pollution Visual Loss Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission When You Intervene Matters.
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MIBHS
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Genes influence various biological processes, including cholesterol metabolism, blood pressure regulation, and the strength and structure of your heart and blood vessels. Common Heart Diseases with Genetic Links Coronary Artery Disease (CAD): CAD occurs when the arteries supplying blood to the heart become narrowed or blocked.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
APRIL 28, 2024
Following the Z-transformation of the independent variables, we evaluated the relationships between the four blood pressure indices and NAFLD through multivariable logistic regression models. This finding was confirmed in populations without exercise habits, under 60 years of age, with normal blood pressure, and in non-obese groups.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DECEMBER 13, 2023
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.
Physiologically Speaking
APRIL 26, 2024
Prolonged sitting also leads to a bending of major arteries in our legs, leading to a blood flow pattern known as turbulent flow, blood pooling, impaired circulation, and endothelial dysfunction. They also had measures of body weight and circumferences and blood pressure assessed at these time points. kilograms (7.7
Heart BMJ
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Obesity is a major global health issue and a leading cause of premature death. The prevalence of obesity has been rising faster than most other known modifiable risk factors. In a Global Burden of Disease analysis, the prevalence of obesity was found to have doubled in more than 70 countries from 1980 to 2013.
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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders
MAY 1, 2024
Guidelines on hypertension (high blood pressure) generally recommend measurement of blood pressure in both arms in the initial visit. They also suggest that the arm with higher blood pressure recording should be used to record blood pressure in subsequent visits.
Physiologically Speaking
JANUARY 10, 2024
Circadian rhythms in blood pressure and heart rate, among other functions, are crucial for cardiovascular health and preventing cardiovascular disease. This is supported by studies showing that ALAN exposure is associated with a range of conditions like cardiometabolic disease, obesity, and diabetes.
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DAIC
MAY 21, 2024
A new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association , JAHA, found that Hello Heart’s digital heart health program was associated with reductions in blood pressure (BP), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and weight.
CardiacWire
AUGUST 14, 2024
Rivus Pharmaceuticals’ HU6 is showing promise as a future obesity-related HFpEF treatment, after topline results from its Phase 2a HuMAIN trial revealed valuable weight, symptom, and cardiometabolic improvements – without the risk of muscle loss. blood pressure, pulse, glucose control, inflammation, lipid levels, and liver enzymes).
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Dr. Paddy Barrett
APRIL 5, 2024
Primary prevention is the management of the risk factors, e.g. high blood pressure, early in life to prevent complications of the condition, i.e. coronary artery disease. New obesity medications such as GLP-1 agonists have shown significant reductions in weight in those with a prior heart attack. Secondary prevention.
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Medical Xpress - Cardiology
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a critical public health concern, with risk factors such as high blood pressure, abnormal blood sugar levels, elevated cholesterol, and obesity beginning in childhood.
CardiacWire
AUGUST 23, 2024
It looks like we might be able to add prediabetes and hypertension to the growing list of conditions that Eli Lilly’s “weight loss drug” tirzepatide is able to treat, after new analysis of the SURMOUNT-1 trial showed significant reductions in blood pressure and diabetes progression. mm Hg systolic and 4.2 of placebo-takers.
64 Hypertension Journal
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Background:Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated with cardiovascular disease; however, patterns of blood pressure (BP) recovery are understudied. Hypertension, Ahead of Print. Pregnancy BPs were obtained during prenatal visits; postpartum BPs were prospectively obtained through home monitoring.
Dr. Paddy Barrett
JANUARY 23, 2024
Subscribe now Blood Pressure Approximately 50% of all Western adults have high blood pressure 7. The majority of this high blood pressure is undiagnosed and, therefore, untreated. As a consequence, high blood pressure is the single most important risk factor for early death worldwide 8.
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Journal of the American Heart Association
JANUARY 17, 2024
Cardiometabolic risk was assessed in young adulthood by carotid artery intima‐media thickness, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, obesity, percent body fat, android/gynoid ratio, and glycated hemoglobin. 0.22]), carotid artery intima‐media thickness (β=0.01 [95% CI, 0.0003–0.02]), systolic blood pressure (β=1.27 [95% CI, 0.09–2.45]),
Hypertension Journal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Inhibition of NOX2 with gp91ds-tat, both ex vivo and in vivo, mitigated the CINA-induced elevation in superoxide production and blood pressure response. Moreover, CINA increased vascular NOX2 expression and superoxide production exclusively in male offspring.
Dr. Paddy Barrett
DECEMBER 12, 2023
That’s what the field of obesity therapeutics feels like right now. Share In addition to reductions in weight, multiple risk parameters, including blood pressure, waist circumference and lipids, also improve. This is no different to how we manage high LDL cholesterol or high blood pressure. N Engl J Med.
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Circulation
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Background:Impaired left atrial (LA) function is observed in obese patients, however, there is little information on when LA dysfunction begins to appear. To clarify this issue, we assessed LA volume and function in obese infants.Methods:Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography was performed in 96 infants aged 4 months.
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