Hypertension

This page includes news and new technology on hypertension. The condition is caused by abnormally high blood pressure that causes excess force and pressure of the blood against the artery walls. Long-term, this can cause damage the vessels and contributes to heart disease. Therapies include antihypertensive medications such as diurestics  and renal denervation therapy. 

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January 15, 2016 — 2016 is starting off a whole lot better than last year for 14-year-old Oswaldo Jimenez of Salem, Ore ...

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January 4, 2016 — Living with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) is challenging, but the chore of treating the rare ...

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November 12, 2015 — A pharmacist-physician collaborative effort to control blood pressure among a diverse group of ...

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November 11, 2015 — Two of the country’s preeminent health organizations, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the ...

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Robert Schwartz, M.D., medical director at the Minnesota Heart Institute, explains new applications for denervation ...

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September 25, 2015 — Medisafe, an mHealth platform for medication management, announced the results of its blood ...

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As healthcare converts to an entirely electronic health record (EHR)-based system, it opens up new opportunities to ...

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September 16, 2015 — Initial results of a landmark clinical trial found patients randomized to a systolic blood pressure ...

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September 10, 2015 — Sunshine Heart Inc. announced commencement of a new study examining the impact of the C-Pulse ...

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August 27, 2015 — Analysis of blood samples from more than 5,000 people suggests that a more sensitive version of a ...

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July 7, 2015 – A new document from the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) provides detailed guidance for ...

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May 14, 2015 — Combining statins for low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and calcium channel antagonists for blood pressure re ...

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May 5, 2015 — Medtronic plc announced the start of a clinical study to determine whether paroxysmal and persistent atria ...

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May 4, 2015 — Boston Scientific Corp. is taking a new approach to evaluate the performance of the Vessix Renal ...

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April 9, 2015 — A study including more than 20,000 adults in China found combined use of the hypertension medication ...

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