Hypertension

Caissa Troutman, MD, provides an overview of the connection between obesity and hypertension.

How are you managing your patients with resistant or refractory hypertension? How do your strategies align with current guidelines? Try these 9 questions and find out.

Hypertension that is resistant or refractory to treatment increases the risk of comorbidity and cardiovascular risk. Click through this at-a-glance review of key issues.

Unawareness was highest among the youngest adults, aged 18 to 44 years, an age range where CV health should be optimized to avoid later morbidity, researchers wrote.

Approximately 10.5 million US adults, or 5% of the population, have the atrial fibrillation, according to new prevalence estimates.

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Obstructive sleep apnea during pregnancy increases risk for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia; CPAP therapy may lower risk significantly.

White coat and masked hypertension can be elusive and dangerous. Click through a topline look at recommendations from the 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines.

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Hypertension interventions led by pharmacists and community health workers were more successful in lowering BP than those led by nurses and physicians.

Get details on the relationship between obesity and mental health conditions, chronic pain, and hypertension, here.

An analysis of 28 000 adults with vascular disease and high-risk diabetes found daily sodium intake of ≥8 g significantly increased risk for AF by 32%.

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Described as a giant and a pioneer in the hypertension and metabolic fields, Bakris is also remembered so fondly by colleagues as a very special man.

The doubling of the diagnosis of chronic hypertension in pregnancy was accompanied by no increase in treatment rates, according to a new study.

Between 2000 and 2022, there were nearly 800 000 excess CV deaths among Black Americans and 24 million additional years of life lost, researchers report.

Findings suggest that optimizing care for children with hypertension may reduce the risk of adult CVD, report researchers.

Study participants who had a history of stroke were nearly 60% less likely to meet guideline-recommended secondary prevention goals, new research reveals.

Women with new-onset HTN faced a 45% greater risk of newly self-reported fibroids and those with untreated HTN had a 19% greater risk, according to a new study.

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Michael A. Weber, MD, an investigator in the PRECISION study, discusses the newly FDA approved drug aprocitentan (Tryvio), and its promise for helping patients with treatment-resistant hypertension.

Aprocitentan is the first antihypertensive drug approved in more than 30 years that achieves its effect through a unique therapeutic pathway.

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Topline KARDIA-2 findings showed zilebesiran led to clinically and statistically significant reductions in SBP on top of either a diuretic, CCB, or ARB.

The 3-year risk of rapid progression from CKD stage G3 was 15% in a large Danish population. Study authors identified accessible key risk factors to aid early detection.

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Older adults with normal BP levels in China were approximately 40% less likely to develop HTN when using a salt substitute for 2 years, according to a new study.

Women with adverse pregnancy outcomes face a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke later in life, according to the statement.

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