Hypertension
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Is There an Ideal Time to Administer Antihypertension Medications?
Taking all antihypertensive agents before bed vs. upon awakening in hypertensive patients showed there was less hypertension during sleep and few cardiovascular events over a six-year follow-up.
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How to Record Reliable Blood Pressure Measurements
A small, community-based study to detect hypertension revealed one week of twice-daily home blood pressure (BP) measurements are more reliable and more accurately predict increased left ventricular mass than clinic or 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring.
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Fewer Diabetes Cases, Lower Blood Pressure Among Mediterranean Diet Adherents
Researchers continue discovering benefits of this healthy nutrition program.
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USPSTF Refrains from Definitive Blood Pressure Screening Recommendation
Panel says more research needed before clear judgments for or against screening children, adolescents can be made.
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Surgeon General Report Prioritizes Hypertension Control
Nation’s top doc calls on clinicians and patients to reverse negative trends.
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Is Isolated Diastolic Hypertension a Disease?
An analysis of three large prospective databases showed the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association revised definition of isolated diastolic hypertension as > 80 mmHg rather than the previous definition of > 90 mmHg resulted in a 5% higher prevalence of diastolic hypertension.
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High Blood Pressure Control, Awareness on the Decline Among U.S. Adults
Health groups lament a trend that could undo years of work.
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Study: Few Black Adults Taking Proper Medicine for Difficult-to-Treat Hypertension
Black patients may not receive the right medications or proper lifestyle counseling.
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Pulmonary Artery Denervation: A Promising Treatment Option for CTEPH
A trial of patients with residual chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension following pulmonary endarterectomy showed pulmonary artery denervation is superior to medical management with riociguat.
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Is It Dizziness or Dementia?
Researchers find certain systolic blood pressure changes may be connected with higher risk for dementia.