DAIC

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

milla1cf Tue, 02/27/2024 - 17:29 February 27, 2024 — Aria CV, Inc , a developer of medical devices treating pulmonary hypertension, today announced the first patient was implanted with the Gen 2 Aria CV Pulmonary Hypertension System as part of the ASPIRE PH clinical trial at Ascension St. Ashwin Ravichandran and Scott Hittinger.

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American College of Cardiology

MARCH 31, 2025

25 in Chicago and simultaneously published in NEJM.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The CDC and CMS added four NYC Health + Hospitals' facilities to the Million Hearts Hypertension Control Champion list in 2024, which recognizes hospitals who have achieved blood pressure control for at least 80% of adult hypertension patients.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 12, 2025

Accurate blood pressure measurement is essential for proper diagnosis and management of patients, especially those with hypertension. All the interns at the Univeristy of Gondar Specialized Referral Hospital were approached.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 30, 2025

Logistic and Cox regression models identified risk factors for in-hospital and long-term mortality.ResultsAmong the 212 patients, 79.72% (169/212) had HCM, 16.98% (36/212) had RCM, and 3.30% (7/212) had RP-HCM. In-hospital mortality was 5.19% (11/212), with follow-up mortality of 20.28% (43/212).

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DAIC

MAY 6, 2024

Initially discovered and developed by Orion Corporation in Finland, intravenous levosimendan is approved in 60 countries outside the United States for use in hospitalized patients with acutely decompensated heart failure. Getty Images milla1cf Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:48 May 6, 2024 — Tenax Therapeutics, Inc. ,

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Heart failure combined with hypertension is a major contributor for elderly patients (≥ 65 years) to in-hospital mortality. However, there are very few models to predict in-hospital mortality in such elderly p.

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The New England Journal of Medicine

MARCH 30, 2025

Among adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension at high risk for death, sotatercept reduced the risk of a composite of death from any cause, lung transplantation, or hospitalization for worsening pulmonary arterial hypertension.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A team at Allina Health’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital has successfully completed the first Barostim Baroreflex Activation Therapy implant in the state of Minnesota, according to an announcement from CVRx, Inc. It has also received the CE Mark for heart failure and resistant hypertension in the European Economic Area.

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Hypertension Journal

APRIL 2, 2025

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. Electronic health records provided data, including HDP for each birth, longitudinal outpatient clinical BP measurements, International Classification of Diseases codes, and medication use to identify new-onset hypertension from 2 months through 14 years post-delivery (20092023). for preeclampsia, 4.20

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JUNE 18, 2024

New study reveals alarming increase in chronic hypertension among pregnant patients in the last two decades, with no significant impact from updated treatment

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Biological and lifestyle factors influence the progression of hypertension in postmenopausal women (PMW). This study aimed to determine biosocial predictors associated with achieving the target BP in PMW with hypertension. Conclusion Half of the hypertensive postmenopausal women did not achieve their BP goals.

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Med Page Today

APRIL 3, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Using a personalized algorithm to identify primary care patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), type 2 diabetes, and hypertension (the kidney-dysfunction triad) -- plus practice facilitators to help providers deliver guideline.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

ObjectiveTo explore the risk factors for cardiotoxicity in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) tumors treated with fluorouracil drugs.MethodsThis study included patients with GI tumors who received fluorouracil at our hospital between January 2018 and April 2022. The demographic and clinical characteristics were collected.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Researchers have found an increased need for urgent dialysis and a rising mortality rate in people hospitalized for dangerously high blood pressure. Younger people needed more dialysis and leaner patients had a higher risk of dying in the hospital. The trends show that acute hypertension remains a serious condition.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease-related morbidity and mortality. We compared in-hospital outcomes based on the presence versus absence of Group 2 PH. Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4135252-A4135252, November 12, 2024. The primary outcome was 30-day readmissions.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 19, 2024

Background and objectives Hypertension is one of the most serious risk factors and the leading cause of mortality in patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). It is necessary to accurately predict the mortality of patients suffering from CVDs with hypertension. Methods The synopsis of our research is as follows.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

"Discover the latest findings from the CDC on hypertension in the U.S., including statistics on prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control among adults from

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Open Heart

MARCH 23, 2023

Background Hypertension is a silent killer that causes serious health issues in all parts of the world. Self-monitoring practice has been identified as an important component of hypertension management. to 18.58)) and knowledge on hypertension self-care (AOR 13.13, 95% CI (4.21 and then exported to SPSS V.25

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 2, 2024

If pulmonary hypertension is additionally involved with vasoplegic syndrome, circulation management becomes much more complicated. The aim of this study is to investigate whether pituitrin is beneficial for the postoperative outcomes in patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing cardiac surgery.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The CDC used patient-level EHR data to plot hypertension rates across the U.S. with hopes the information will inform county-level public health programs and initiatives, according to a study published Dec. 5 in Preventing Chronic Disease.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Association of Black Cardiologists is recruiting clinicians for a new certification program it launched in December related to hypertension management. The aim is to increase culturally conscious care for patient populations that are more likely to be diagnosed with the condition and experience adverse outcomes from it.

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Open Heart

JANUARY 27, 2023

Introduction HIV and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are the two main causes of death in Kenya with hypertension as CVD’s leading risk factor and HIV infection a risk factor for hypertension. We qualitatively evaluated the feasibility of integrated HIV and hypertension screening at Kenyatta National Hospital.

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Open Heart

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Background Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has a dismal prognosis with overall survival around 10%. The most common comorbidities prior to OHCA were hypertension (43.6%), heart failure (23.6%), chronic ischaemic heart disease (23.6%) and atrial fibrillation (22.0%). Previous AMI was prevalent in 14.8% of men and 10.9% of the men.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is linked to higher rates of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Methods In the retrospective study, patients admitted to our hospital between January 2022 and April 2023 were classified into PH and control groups using ePASP and compared with acoustic cardiographic parameters.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Insufficient arm support can lead to an overestimated blood pressure reading of almost 7mmHG and a potential misdiagnosis of hypertension, according to a study published Oct. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 30, 2024

This study aims to identify risk factors for new-onset HDP and to develop a prediction model for assessing the risk of new-onset hypertension during pregnancy.MethodsWe included 446 pregnant women without baseline hypertension from Liyang People's Hospital at the first inspection, and they were followed up until delivery.

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DAIC

JUNE 4, 2024

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Becomes First Hospital in the Northeast to Adopt Advanced Robotic Technology for Heart Treatment 5. Patent Covering the Use of Levosimendan in Pulmonary Hypertension with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (PH-HFpEF) 10. Scientists Suggest a New Method for Diagnosing Heart Diseases 6.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

DECEMBER 29, 2023

We compared the risk of adverse events between hypertensive patients using valsartan and a propensity score–matched group using nonrecalled angiotensin receptor blockers and angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors.Methods and ResultsWe used Optum's deidentified Clinformatics Datamart (July 2017–January 2019).

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Open Heart

JUNE 8, 2022

Objective Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), caused by pulmonary artery remodelling and increased pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) due to an unknown mechanism, is an intractable disease with a poor prognosis. Methods We analysed the data of all patients with I/H-PAH admitted to our hospital between 1998 and 2019.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Introduction:Clinical characteristics of patients with in-hospital onset stroke (IHOS) compared to those with out-of-hospital onset stroke are reported to be late detection of stroke onset, less use of rt-PA, presence of atrial fibrillation, and poor outcome. First, we calculated the incidence rate of IHOS among hospitalized patients.

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Hypertension Journal

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Hypertension, Volume 80, Issue 12 , Page 2591-2600, December 1, 2023. RESULTS:The median age of the patients was 76 years, and 54.9% were women. The total AHT incidence was 70 cases per 100 000 admission year. Urgent dialysis rates increased from 1.52% (95% CI, 1.12–2.06) 2.06) to 2.60% (2.17–3.1;

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DAIC

JANUARY 14, 2025

9, 2025 Gender-based racism through microaggressions may be linked to higher blood pressure postpartum and beyond, according to new research published in Hypertension , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. These results emphasize that hypertension management needs to extend beyond prescription medications, she said.

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DAIC

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Additional details and the notice can be found here: [link] The Paradise uRDN system is designed to lower blood pressure by denervating the sympathetic nerves surrounding the renal arteries, reducing the overactivity that can lead to hypertension.

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Hypertension Journal

MAY 28, 2024

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. Throughout this scientific statement, we use the terms acute care and inpatient to refer to care received in the emergency department and after admission to the hospital.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 20, 2024

A 63 year old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, prediabetes, and a family history of CAD developed chest pain, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis after consuming a large meal at noon. He called EMS, who arrived on scene about two hours after the onset of pain to find him hypertensive at 220 systolic.

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American College of Cardiology

AUGUST 26, 2024

What is the relationship of subendocardial perfusion with cardiac injury, structure, and a composite of major adverse cardiovascular and cerebral events (MACCE) consisting of death, heart failure (HF) hospitalization, myocardial infarction, and stroke?

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