Intensive blood pressure control could prevent 100,000 deaths each year
Researchers have projected that aggressively lowering blood pressure could help prevent more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.
Feb 13, 2017
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Researchers have projected that aggressively lowering blood pressure could help prevent more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.
Feb 13, 2017
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New research may provide insights concerning the cause of changes in the heart's structure that often occur in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of ...
Feb 2, 2017
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Regular swimming, biking or even brisk walks can help African Americans lower their chance of developing high blood pressure, according to new research published in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension.
Jan 30, 2017
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The concept of being able to predict the sex of a baby during early pregnancy or even influence it by eating or doing certain things when trying to conceive has been the subject of public fascination and debate for many centuries. ...
Jan 19, 2017
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Using data from a national study, Johns Hopkins researchers determined that using heart CT scans can help personalize treatment in patients whose blood pressure falls in the gray zone of just above normal or mild high blood ...
Jan 17, 2017
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The American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) have published an evidence-based clinical practice guideline on the appropriate systolic blood pressure target for adults 60 years ...
Jan 17, 2017
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In a small clinical trial that replaced widely used biomass and kerosene cookstoves with clean-burning ethanol stoves, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) was able to ...
Jan 13, 2017
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A new study shows that a rat model of metabolic syndrome fed a high-sugar and high-cholesterol diet and given blue maize extract showed significant improvement in systolic blood pressure, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, ...
Jan 11, 2017
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An analysis that included 8.7 million participants finds that the rate of elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP) increased substantially globally between 1990 and 2015, and that in 2015 an estimated 3.5 billion adults had ...
Jan 10, 2017
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(HealthDay)—For adults aged 80 years and older without comorbidity, systolic blood pressure (SBP)
Jan 5, 2017
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