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. vs. 2.4%) All gastric bypass patients eliminated their resistant hypertension (from 15.2%

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

Analyses restricted to relatively large or high-quality studies yielded similar estimates, with lower between-studies heterogeneity.ConclusionPharmacist care for patients with hypertension consistently improves BP across various settings and interventions. PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021279751.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JUNE 17, 2024

A team of researchers led by Monash University and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute have published the first compelling evidence of the therapeutic potential of a new therapy to treat hypertension-induced organ damage. The paper appears in the journal Cardiovascular Research.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The robustness of the results was verified by subgroup and sensitivity analyses.ResultsA cohort of 11,556 people with a diagnosis of hypertension was included in this study.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

AimTo evaluate the real-life effectiveness and safety of hydrogen inhalation (HI) therapy as an additional treatment in Chinese adults with hypertension.MethodsThis observational, retrospective clinical study included hypertensive patients receiving routine antihypertensives with or without HI initiation from 2018 to 2023.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MAY 19, 2024

The use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may be associated with improved pulmonary hypertension in women, according to research presented at the ATS 2024 International Conference held May 17–22 in San Diego.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 25, 2025

Sensitivity and subgroup analyses confirmed the robustness of these findings.ConclusionThis study establishes a non-linear relationship between PAC and the prevalence of PAD in hypertensive patients, with a critical threshold at 17.00ng/dl. PAD was diagnosed based on an ankle-brachial index (ABI) of 0.90.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

OCTOBER 28, 2024

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have discovered that a genetic risk score can predict how Black individuals with hypertension respond to the blood pressure medication chlorthalidone and their likelihood of developing treatment-resistant hypertension.

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DAIC

JUNE 20, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 06/20/2024 - 19:40 June 20, 2024 — A programing algorithm, being tested by HonorHealth Research Institute for those patients with new or recently installed pacemakers, is designed so the device not only provides a steady heartbeat, but also controls high blood pressure.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 8, 2024

Pulmonary hypertension is a very serious disease that leads to heart failure and death in many patients. Alexander Seidinger from the Department of Systems Physiology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, tested the plant substance FR900359—referred to as FR by the researchers.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MAY 26, 2024

SARS-CoV-2 can directly invade the cardiovascular system through ACE2; Similarly, cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease can affect ACE2 levels and exacerbate the disease, and ACE2 dysregulation may also be a potential mechanism for long-term acute sequelae of COVID-19.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 19, 2024

A research team has discovered a possible therapeutic target for pulmonary hypertension.

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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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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A collaborative study from physician researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is shining new light on current guidelines for delivery timing in pregnant mothers with chronic hypertension.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 11, 2024

Health researchers identify patients at risk for preventable death in the year after pregnancy.

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DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Thu, 05/16/2024 - 15:37 May 16, 2024 — People were more likely to develop a type of treatment-resistant hypertension when they experienced adverse effects of economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status, known as social determinants of health.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Newly published research proves that it's possible to treat high blood pressure by using specially engineered Lactobacillus paracasei to produce a protein called ACE2 in the gut, reducing gut angiotensin II and, in turn, lowering blood pressure.

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DAIC

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Pulmonary arterial hypertension, a form of high blood pressure that occurs in the lungs, is a target of research by Cedars-Sinai investigators. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare disease, affecting fewer than 100 people per million. Siegel Family Foundation Distinguished Professor and senior author of the study. “We

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 11, 2024

Rutgers Health researchers have found that hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are strongly associated with fatal cardiovascular disease for up to a year after birth.

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DAIC

MARCH 18, 2024

and the first on the West Coast to use a new device aimed at lowering blood pressure in patients with difficult-to-treat hypertension. Research shows that reducing the activity of these nerves can help lower blood pressure. Food and Drug Administration approved it in late 2023. The entire procedure takes about an hour.

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American Heart News - Heart News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Research Highlights: Favorable cardiovascular health in early pregnancy, as measured by the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 (LE8) cardiovascular health score, was linked to lower risk of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension,

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While reducing salt intake has been the focus of dietary advice to control high blood pressure (hypertension), a new study suggests that upping your potassium intake can be at least as important.

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Hypertension Journal

AUGUST 5, 2024

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. Hypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Most but not all of the new generation of trials reached their primary end point, demonstrating modest efficacy of renal denervation in lowering blood pressure across a spectrum of hypertension, from mild to truly resistant.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 30, 2025

The independent risk factors for mortality included left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), pulmonary hypertension, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels (P<0.05). LVEF, pulmonary hypertension, and LDL levels are critical prognostic factors, offering insights for risk assessment and management in affected children.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Hunter Medical Research Institute and University of Newcastle researcher Professor Murray Cairns, along with his Precision Medicine team, have discovered a way of predicting who will respond to blood pressure treatments to lower sodium in the body. Their findings were published this week in Circulation.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hypertension constitutes a pervasive chronic ailment on a global scale, frequently inflicting damage upon vital organs, such as the heart, blood vessels, kidneys, brain, and others. In recent years, research has increasingly shown that mitophagy plays an important role in organ damage associated with hypertension.

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Hypertension Journal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. Although orthostatic hypotension (OH) has long been recognized as a manifestation of autonomic dysfunction, a growing body of literature has identified OH as a common comorbidity of hypertension. These strategies include countermaneuvers and short-acting vasoactive agents (midodrine, droxidopa).

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Med Page Today

JUNE 12, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- The myriad rehospitalizations required by women with ongoing hypertension in the postpartum period signaled a need to better manage these patients, researchers said. Among people with new-onset hypertensive disorder of pregnancy.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 11, 2024

A drug approved to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension may be effective at managing hypertension and end-organ damage in patients with sickle cell disease, according to a new study published in Lancet Haematology.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers tie infertility treatment to a particular risk for hypertensive diseases.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A team of public health researchers at Ningxia Medical University, in China, has found, via analysis of health record data, that some regular coffee drinkers with high blood pressure may have a lower risk of developing dementia than people who do not drink coffee. Their study is published in Scientific Reports.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Researchers conclude that commonly used ways of positioning the patient's arm during blood pressure (BP) screenings can substantially overestimate test results and may lead to a misdiagnosis of hypertension.

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Open Heart

APRIL 15, 2024

Background and aims Hypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease. EHRs can be used for epidemiological research. This study aimed to identify codelists used to define hypertension in studies that use EHRs and generate recommended codelists to support reproducibility and consistency.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

AUGUST 1, 2024

In the 1970s, only about 50% of patients were aware of their hypertension. As such, researchers alert health care providers that the old 'silent killer' is alive and well. High blood pressure affects about 45% of U.S. Today, 54% are aware of their high blood pressure, 40% are actively treated and 21% are actively controlled.

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American Heart News - Heart News

JUNE 17, 2024

Research Highlights: The number of individuals in the United States who had chronic hypertension or chronic high blood pressure during pregnancy doubled between 2008 and 2021, according to a nationwide review of private health insurance.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 1, 2024

Eating patterns that align with the Mediterranean diet or the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) diet could help lower cardiovascular disease risk in adults with type 1 diabetes, according to results from a six-year study.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking smartphone app that measures blood pressure using a smartphone's built-in sensors, eliminating the need for traditional cuffs. By allowing users to measure their blood pressure anytime and anywhere, the app could revolutionize cardiovascular care and improve early detection of hypertension.

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