It turns out that the most common first-line treatment for hypertension may not be as effective, and pose more risk for side effects, than an alternative that is not prescribed as often, according to a new multinational study. How could this be? Columbia University...
Kaiser Permanente Northern California (Oakland & Redwood City) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital conducted a retrospective study examining the relationship between systolic and diastolic hypertension and cardiovascular outcomes using data from 1.3 million adults in...
UPI reports that the Irish National Institute for Preventive Cardiology concluded from a research study that death rates among people with type 2 diabetes who received intensive blood pressure therapy feel by 14% compared to type 2 diabetics who didn’t get the...
The HOPE-3 trial, sponsored by the Population Health Research Institute, was led by principal investigator McMaster University. Heart disease and stroke are major causes of death and disability worldwide and are largely preventable. Cholesterol and blood pressure are...
The Secondary results of Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) Memory and Cognition in Decreased Hypertension (SPRINT MIND) study are “the first to show an intervention that significantly reduces the occurrence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which...
Researchers at University of Arizona Health Sciences and Northwestern University sought to answer the question as to the promise of wearable technology for blood pressure monitoring. The research effort is titled “Relation between blood pressure and pulse wave...
