Archive for the ‘Hypertension’ Category
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Individuals who have one or two parents with hypertension appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing elevated blood pressure throughout their adult lives, according to a report in the March 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Blacks with a "suspicious, hostile personality" have higher blood pressure than whites with the same tendencies, according to a report presented on Friday at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Baltimore, USA Today reports. Significant variations in blood pressure, as well as a person's tendency toward suspicious and hostile behavior, ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The American Physiological Society (APS; http://www.the-aps.org/) has announced that it has awarded its 2008 Minority Outreach Fellowships to TanYa Gwathmey and Kesia Mathis. This is the third year of the award program.Dr. Gwathmey, an African-American, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at the Wake Forest ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Blacks with a "suspicious, hostile personality" have higher blood pressure than whites with the same tendencies, according to a report presented on Friday at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Baltimore, USA Today reports. Significant variations in blood pressure, as well as a person's tendency toward suspicious and hostile behavior, ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Dr Isabel Lee, Research Liaison Officer at The Stroke Association said:"The research in this weeks Lancet is very promising and there is certainly potential for an immunisation to control blood pressure particularly in young people as they are more likely to respond. "One hundred and fifty thousand people in ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Children who eat less salt drink fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks and may significantly lower their risks for obesity, elevated blood pressure and later-in-life heart attack and stroke, researchers reported in the print and online issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.Previous studies have shown that dietary salt intake ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Is your heart healthy? It's a good time to check because February is American Heart Month. Nearly 1 in 3 Americans has high blood pressure and many don't even know it.* Left uncontrolled, the condition can have deadly consequences. Now, a new device is being tested ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Women face unique risks for developing hypertension and special challenges in keeping their high blood pressure under control, according to new research published in a special themed issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.The themed issue features more than 45 studies and editorials related to women and hypertension. ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Smoking and high blood pressure are a deadly combination that dramatically increase the risk of a blood vessel bursting inside the brain, Australian research shows. High blood pressure and smoking are known to increase the risk of heart diseases, but Sydney researchers have shown that the two have a stronger ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
The development of a new vaccine that can treat high blood pressure has received widespread media coverage. The Guardian reports that the vaccine works by targeting and "mopping up" the hormone, angiotensin 2, which causes blood vessels to tighten and so raise blood pressure. The Daily Mail writes that the ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Changing from losartan to candesartan achieves significant reductions in blood pressure over a two-year period according to a study in the January issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.1 In addition, the cost of candesartan is 21-23% lower than losartan, therefore offering significantly greater cost effectiveness. Of 94 ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have found that diltiazem, a drug used in the treatment of high blood pressure, reduces cocaine cravings in a rat model. These findings will appear in the March issue of the leading medical journal Nature Neuroscience.Previous work showed that ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Sciele Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCRX) and Addrenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that Addrenex has submitted a 505(b)(2) New Drug Application (NDA) to the Federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for CloniBID for the treatment of hypertension. Upon FDA approval, Sciele expects to launch this product in the first half of 2009. In ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Women who drank more fat free milk and had higher intakes of calcium and vitamin D from foods, and not supplements, tended to have a lower risk for developing hypertension or high blood pressure, according to a new study published in the American Heart Association journal, Hypertension.After examining the diets ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Children who eat less salt drink fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks and may significantly lower their risks for obesity, elevated blood pressure and later-in-life heart attack and stroke, researchers reported in the print and online issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.Previous studies have shown that dietary salt intake ...
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