The editorial, which ties in with a seminar on hypertension, says: “Despite very effective and cost-effective treatments, target blood pressure levels are very rarely reached, even in countries where cost of medication is not an issue. Many patients still believe that hypertension is a disease that can be cured, and ...
Losing weight is hard to do. Anyone who has tried knows it is true. For most of us, the thought of dropping that extra 20 or 30 pounds of padding seems like an insurmountable goal. Imagine the need to drop 100 pounds or more. That’s just what 118 men and ...
"The condition is variable and can change quickly. We need to be aware of symptoms changing from mild to worse. A higher number of symptoms could also mean [pregnancy-induced hypertension] is getting worse," Black said. Also known as preeclampsia and gestational hypertension, pregnancy-induced hypertension occurs at about 20 weeks in ...
Professor Klaus Rabe,Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands, and Dr Leonardo Fabbri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, say: "We propose to add the term chronic systemic inflammatory syndrome to the diagnosis of COPD to stimulate discussion around the frequent complex chronic comorbidities in people with COPD and to ...
Study author Ichiro Wakabayashi also found that the older men who participated — all in their 50s — were more susceptible to the blood pressure-boosting effects of heavy drinking than younger men. While there are signs that drinking can be good for the heart and boost good cholesterol levels, “this ...
This leads to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a serious condition characterized by high blood pressure in the arteries that carry blood to the lungs. "NAC fools the body into thinking that it has an oxygen shortage," said Dr. Ben Gaston, UVa Children’s Hospital pediatrician and researcher who led the study. ...
Researchers from the University of Glasgow looked at data from previous studies which show that immediate family members of patients with premature coronary heart disease (CHD) are at significantly increased risk of developing the disease. Siblings are twice as likely to have a heart attack compared to the ...
"General obesity, called ’overweight’ in childhood, increased over time in all racial and ethnic groups," said Rebecca Din-Dzietham, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., lead author of the study and associate professor of community health and preventive medicine at MSM in Atlanta, Ga. "The prevalence of childhood obesity drifted slightly and steadily higher ...
The first study, to demonstrate this relationship independent of age and renal function, appears in the September issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The metabolic syndrome is characterized by a group of risk factors that include obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol. The American ...
An estimated 20 percent of all high-blood-pressure patients, or 12 million Americans, have LVH and are at increased risk of developing heart failure. While the direct relationship between levels of LVH in patients with high blood pressure and risk of cardiac complications—including death, heart attack, stroke and atrial fibrillation—has previously been ...
The drug, Digibind, has been prescribed for over 20 years to patients who overdose on a certain heart medication, but is not yet approved for preeclampsia, the most common and dangerous pregnancy complication affecting as many as eight in every 100 pregnant women. The disorder is characterized by high blood ...
The analyses, which examine genetic differences that potentially affect the risk for cardiovascular disease and other disorders using data collected from FHS participants, are described in a series of articles recently published in BMC Medical Genetics. Known as the Framingham 100K genome-wide scan, the results also are freely available through ...
Dietitian Katrina Campbell, who graduated with her PhD from QUT yesterday, monitored the diets of 62 pre-dialysis patients at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RB&WH) and supported them with regular contact as part of her thesis. Dr Campbell said depending on the patient’s individual situation, a dietitian could intervene by ...
"It does not mean that those with high blood pressure were remembering significantly less; rather, the brain areas acting together during memory required more blood flow to remember the same things as people who did not have high blood pressure in the study," said lead author J. Richard Jennings, Ph.D. ...
The research is the largest population-based study to look at the effect of weight gain during pregnancy by obese expectant mothers, says Raul Artal, M.D., study author and chairman of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and women’s health at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "This study confirms what we’ve suspected ...
Researchers in Italy found that about 50 percent of overweight, hypertensive adults, ranging in age from 29 to 65 years, achieved normal body weight and blood pressure after six months of treatment with a reduced-calorie diet. "This is important because it means that in these patients with elevated blood pressure ...
At the 13th Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation held in Prague, Czech Republic, Rajinder Singh, M.D., a fellow in transplantation surgery, presented the results of three studies suggesting not only the potential to expand acceptance criteria, but specific ways to achieve optimum results. "Our experience suggests that the ...
The test is designed to detect the presence of so-called biogenic amines, naturally occurring toxins that can trigger a wide range of symptoms in sensitive individuals --from nasty headaches to life-threatening episodes of high-blood pressure. Existing tests for biogenic amines can take several hours, are cumbersome and require large, expensive ...
According to lead author, Dr Vlado Perkovic at The George Institute, most of the CKD population will die from cardiovascular complications. "People with Chronic Kidney Disease are at a significantly greater risk of cardiovascular events than those without the disease. We found that approximately twice as many cardiovascular events ...
"Most breast cancer therapies today -- including new treatments still under development -- increase long-term risk of cardiovascular disease," said Lee W. Jones, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. "We don’t know exactly how large the added ...
Chemists at the University of Sheffield have discovered an innovative way of using targeted small doses of CO which could benefit patients who have undergone heart surgery or organ transplants and people suffering from high blood pressure. Although the gas is lethal in large doses, small amounts can reduce inflammation, widen ...
"Despite the fact that effective drugs are available, only about one out of four people has their blood pressure successfully controlled," said Juerg Nussberger, M.D., professor of medicine at the University Hospital of the Canton of Vaud, in Lausanne, Switzerland, and lead author of the study reported at the American ...
While current medications for Alzheimer’s disease are effective for some patients in slowing the rate of AD progression, many patients do not benefit from the treatments or cannot tolerate them, says lead researcher Michelle M. Mielke, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University ...
Images of hearts tagged using MRI, gridlines shown expand and contract with heartbeat. (Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine) The Hopkins team analyzed more than a half-dozen measurements of heart structure and pumping function to assess minute changes in the hearts of 5,004 men and women, ...
Winter scene. Blood pressure systematically worsens in the winter and improves in the summer. (Credit: Michele Hogan) The five-year study analyzed electronic health records from 15 VA hospitals in warmer and colder cities throughout the United States. Researchers identified 443,632 veterans with high ...
The Simplified Treatment Intervention to Control Hypertension (STITCH) trial was a study of 2,104 patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) at 45 family practices in southwestern Ontario, Canada. In order to increase the number of people with hypertension who reduce their blood pressure to "goal" levels, researchers wanted to see ...
An article published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences highlights information on the benefits of diets high in fruit, vegetables, cereals and fish and low in saturated fats in reducing dementia risk. (Credit: iStockphoto/Gabor Izso) Adults with diabetes are especially sensitive ...
A new pilot study, launched last month, involves adults diagnosed with kidney disease and focuses on a condition called endotoxemia, a buildup of toxins in the blood that may affect cardiovascular health. If the researchers’ hypothesis proves correct, the work will lead to follow-up studies to develop therapeutics. Kidney disease has ...
Fish oil elevated the level of a protein that prevents the formation of amyloid, the tell-tale protein found in Alzheimer’s. (Credit: iStockphoto/Donna Franklin) All of these developments are reason for cautious optimism for greater understanding of how the disease works and the prospects for ...
"In the recent past, chronological age has been a considered a barrier for both organ donation and transplantation," said Phillip Moore, M.D., lead author. "Our experience suggests that by transplanting organs that are considered higher-risk into carefully selected elderly patients, waiting times can be reduced and survival is similar, compared ...