Hypertension News

An online marketing company, Marchex, found Ohioans cuss more than anyone else in the nation, based on more than 600,000 customer phone calls to businesses last year.

Dear Dr. Roach: I wrote to you previously about my wife's death from an aortic dissection.

According to a press release from the hospital, "This event is for people who are morbidly obese with a body mass index of 35 or greater with co-morbidities including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, infertility, incontinence, depression and orthopedic problems due to weight.

Different ways or methods to normalize the blood pressure level in your body have now become highly popular and primary requirement in the life of every second individual all over the world.

Modern age has its own disadvantages. Luxury and comfort provided by this age are though a great relief from the drudgery one's ancestors had to undergo in various chores, yet this relief is also making people lazy and inactive.

Can someone please talk about "white-coat hypertension" - high or borderline high blood pressure at the clinic but up to 15 to 20 points lower at the discount store, state fair, etc.

JAMA Dermatology Study Highlights A study by Kathie P. Huang, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and colleagues examined the prevalence of comorbid conditions among patients with alopecia areata , an autoimmune disease that presents with nonscarring hair loss from some or all hair-bearing areas of the body, typically the scalp.

Dear Dr. Roach: I use Advair every day, two times a day, and I now have high blood pressure.

Richard Channick, MD, Director, Pulmonary Hypertension and Thromboendarterectomy Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, spoke at the 2013 American Thoracic Society International Conference as part of a session featuring the Clinical Trials in Pulmonary Hypertension.

A recent year long analysis suggests that constant communication with pharmacists may be the only way to self-monitor blood pressure levels.

Type 2 diabetes is more aggressive in children than adults, with signs of serious complications seen just a few years after diagnosis, new research finds.

The high blood pressure state has now come up as one of the major health complications for people these days.

Patients suffering from high blood pressure - the single most important risk for death worldwide - could be helped by a UK-wide clinical trial aimed at improving treatments.

ST. PAUL, Minn. & PARIS -- -- St. Jude Medical, Inc. , a global medical device company, today announced that the company's EnligHTN Multi-Electrode Renal Denervation System provides a safe, rapid and sustained reduction in blood pressure measurements after one year.

St. Jude Medical, Inc. , a global medical device company, today announced that the company's EnligHTN Multi-Electrode Renal Denervation System provides a safe, rapid and sustained reduction in blood pressure measurements after one year.

In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended.

APT's targeted apheresis cartridge is expected to be the first medical device specifically designed to treat preeclampsia, a leading cause of maternal and fetal death.

Data on the first 41 subjects enrolled in the REDUCE-HTN clinical program were presented today at the annual EuroPCR Scientific Program in Renal denervation with the Vessix System is a minimally-invasive procedure in which a balloon catheter is fed into the arterial vascular system and positioned in the renal arteries, the major blood vessels that ... (more)

The high blood pressure problem can actually turned out to be precarious if it remains undiagnosed from past several years.

The existence of high blood pressure condition for prolonged period of time is indeed a serious problem being faced by people all over the world.