Heart failure is the most common cause of death throughout the world, typically the result of chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. As a result, research efforts have focused on an array of approaches aimed at preventing and treating high blood pressure. Recently, Japanese...
Use of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants during pregnancy appears to be linked with increased risk of pregnancy induced high blood pressure ("hypertension"), but a causal link has not been established. Pregnancy hypertension is sometimes linked with pre-eclampsia, a...
"Hidden Kidney Damage" Behind Hypertension Revealed By A Large-scale Survey--Results
Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. (Head Office; Osaka Japan: President; Masayo Tada) conducted a large-scale nationwide survey for the first time in Japan to figure out the actual state of "hidden kidney...
Omron Healthcare announced support for the American Heart Association's broad-based healthcare awareness campaign that will educate providers on hypertension treatment recommendations, including home blood pressure monitoring and best practices for integrating this into their standard of care...
A teenager who consumes recommended quantities of salt each day has a considerably lower risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure), stroke, heart disease, and dying prematurely later on in life during adulthood, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, explained...
Novartis' single pill combination of aliskiren and amlopidine - Tekamlo - has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of hypertension. Data revealed that Tekamlo significantly reduced blood pressure compared to amlodipine or aliskiren (Tekturna) alone. The...
New research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has found that an alternative therapy may be possible for treating some types of hypertension using an enzyme called ACE2. The research, conducted on mice in the laboratory of Daniel Batlle, M.D., professor of medicine at...
My doctor prescribed me the hypertensive drug Adalat git 30, been taken that for years, I guess it is becoming worse, so he added another drug olmetic, however it does not seen to improve. Heard of this food supplement call CoQ10, is this good in kelping to reduce the blood pressure and the heard.