April 19, 2017 — Eating potassium-rich foods like sweet potatoes, avocados, spinach, beans, bananas and even coffee ...
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.
April 13, 2017 — Vascular Dynamics Inc. (VDI) a privately held medical device company developing novel solutions for the ...
March 27, 2017 — Participants in web-based lifestyle counseling reduced their systolic blood pressure by 10 mmHg ...
February 13, 2017 — Vascular Dynamics Inc. (VDI) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...
January 23, 2017 — Using data from a national study, Johns Hopkins researchers determined that using heart computed ...
January 17, 2017 — The new SunTech Oscar 2 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system (ABPM) is now available ...
Krishna Rocha-Singh, M.D., Prairie Vascular Institute, Springfield, Ill., explains advancements in device therapy for ...
October 31, 2016 — White coat hypertension, where patients have high blood pressure readings in a medical setting but ...
October 11, 2016 — Awards from the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund are supporting research on the peripheral ...
August 23, 2016 — Technavio analysts forecast the global renal denervation market to grow at a compound annual growth ...
August 22, 2016 — Obstructive sleep apnea is a common cause of high blood pressure. In the Aug. 17, 2016, issue of the ...
June 9, 2016 — An international stroke study found that standard and intensive blood pressure treatments were equally ...
April 20, 2016 — Lowering cholesterol with statins significantly reduced adverse cardiovascular events in people with ...
March 23, 2016 — Recent research published in The American Journal of Cardiology and led by Stephen Crouse, Ph.D., is ...
February 17, 2016 — Up to 10 percent of people with high blood pressure have resistant hypertension — high blood ...