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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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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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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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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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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.
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
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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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).
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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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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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.
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.
97 Medical Xpress - Cardiology
APRIL 7, 2025
The five classic risk factors for cardiovascular disease are well knownsmoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and underweight or overweight/obesity. All increase the likelihood of heart ailments down the road.
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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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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
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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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
APRIL 24, 2025
They are authorized for treating obesity. IntroductionGlucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA) are novel agents with proven cardiovascular (CV) benefits. GLP-1 RAs have been used for diabetes and found to improve CV outcomes in diabetic and nondiabetic patients.
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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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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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
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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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.
American Heart News - Heart News
MARCH 26, 2025
Statement Highlights: By age 18, many adolescents have already developed heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol or Type 2 diabetes, and a growing number of younger adults are experiencing adverse.
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.
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.
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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.
Open Heart
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Patients with no history of atherosclerotic CVD started on blood pressure and/or lipid and/or glucose lowering treatments were identified retrospectively and interviewed at least 6 months after the initiation of medication. obese (body mass index≥30 kg/m 2 ) and 53.5% women; mean age 61.7±10.8 women; mean age 61.7±10.8
HCPLive
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Results suggest a high prevalence of fatty liver in adults with chronic HCV, which was significantly associated with central obesity, elevated blood pressure, and metabolic syndrome.
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AMS Cardiology
MARCH 31, 2025
Causes and Risk Factors Several factors can increase the likelihood of developing AFib: High Blood Pressure : Elevated blood pressure can strain the heart, contributing to the onset of AFib. Obesity : Excess weight increases the risk of heart-related issues, including AFib.
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.
40 Journal of the American Heart Association
DECEMBER 29, 2023
BackgroundWe have previously reported that male mice exposed to maternal separation and early weaning (MSEW), a model of early life stress, show sympathetic activation and increased blood pressure in response to a chronic high‐fat diet. After chronic treatment with enalapril (2.5 mg/kg
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Circulation: Heart Failure
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Fasting blood samples collected at the time of the cardiopulmonary exercise test were used to assay obesity-related biomarkers. Our findings suggest that among the obesity-related biomarkers studied, higher levels of leptin and CRP are independently associated with increased odds of HFpEF, with odds ratios of 1.36 (95% CI, 1.09–1.70)
40 Hypertension Journal
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Alterations in microcirculation play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders such as obesity and hypertension. In obesity, PVAT becomes enlarged and inflamed, and the bioavailability of adiponectin is reduced. The inevitable consequence is a rise in peripheral resistance with higher blood pressure.
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Circulation
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Background:Aldosterone regulates blood pressure and electrolyte balance. Insulin signaling was assessed 15 minutes after stimulation with 17 nM insulin.Results:Esaxerenone improved insulin sensitivity (P<0.05) without altering metabolic parameters in HFD-induced obese and db/db mice.
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Cardiometabolic Health Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2024
There is a clear relationship between sleep deprivation and the development of conditions like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. Blood pressure increases : Both daytime and nighttime blood pressure rise with sleep deprivation, particularly in women, heightening cardiovascular risk.
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