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hypertension
 9/9/2010 Some African-Americans With Chronic Kidney Disease Benefit From Lower Blood Pressure Goal
On average, a lower blood pressure goal was no better than the standard blood pressure goal at slowing progression of kidney disease among African-Americans who had chronic kidney disease resulting from high blood pressure, according to results of the African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK), the largest and longest study of chronic kidney disease (CKD) ...
9/9/2010 Lower Blood Pressure May Preserve Kidney Function In Some Patients
Intensively treating hypertension in some African Americans with kidney disease by pushing blood pressure well below the current recommended goal may significantly decrease the number who lose kidney function and require dialysis, suggests a Johns Hopkins-led study publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday. "This is not a panacea. We have a lot more to figure out...
9/9/2010 Combination Therapy Of Telmisartan And Amlodipine Provides Significantly Better Blood Pressure Lowering Than Either Agent Alone
Data show that treatment with a single-pill combination of telmisartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker, (ARB) and amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker (CCB) results in significant reductions in blood pressure (BP) in patients with severe hypertension...
9/9/2010 Potential For New Antihypertensives From Study Of System For Eliminating Salt
A study of the body system that deals with Americans' love affair with salt may yield more insight into why so many end up hypertensive and how to better treat them. A team of scientists from the Medical College of Georgia, the University of Utah and the University of Texas at San Antonio is looking at how the kidneys know you've eaten too much salt and what they do to eliminate it...
9/9/2010 Moderate Coffee Consumption Improves Aortic Distensibility In Hypertensive Elderly Individuals
A detailed study conducted by a team from the University of Athens on the Aegean island of Ikaria has demonstrated that moderate consumption of coffee by hypertensive elderly individuals can lead to improvements in aortic distensibility...
9/9/2010 Award-Winning Study: Hardening Of The Arteries Doubles The Risk Of Mortality
Research prize for Bochum's medics They also pointed out that the disease can be diagnosed and counteracted by means of a simple comparison between arm and ankle blood pressure carried out by a GP. Their highly regarded work has now been conferred the Best PAD Research Award 2010 by the Peripheral Arterial Disease Coalition...
9/9/2010 Novartis Receives FDA Approval Of Tekamlo™, A Single-pill Combination Of Aliskiren And Amlodipine To Treat High Blood Pressure
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved TekamloŽ (aliskiren and amlodipine) tablets, a single-pill for the treatment of high blood pressure combining the only approved direct renin inhibitor, TekturnaŽ (aliskiren) with the widely used calcium channel blocker, amlodipine1...
9/9/2010 Hypertension Drug Tekamlo (Aliskiren And Amlodipine) Approved By FDA
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 medication has been approved in tablet form...
9/9/2010 Most Salads Have Too Much Salt, UK Study
A British study of 270 salads and pasta bowls purchased from retail outlets, supermarkets, cafes and fast food restaurants revealed that a surprising number of them contained more than half of our daily recommended salt intake...
9/9/2010 Actelion Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Approval Of Brand Name For Commercially Available VELETRI® (epoprostenol For Injection)
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the brand name VELETRIŽ for the company's epoprostenol for injection therapy...
9/9/2010 NICE Guideline To Drive Down A Leading Cause Of Maternal Death - Hypertension In Pregnancy
A small amount of aspirin a day could help certain groups of pregnant women keep a potentially serious and sometimes fatal condition at bay. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) says this is just one of a number of ways to help prevent and treat hypertension (high blood pressure) before, during and after pregnancy...
9/9/2010 Dilation Of Blood Vessels Restores Muscle Synthesis In Elderly
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers believe they've found a way to use widely available blood pressure drugs to fight the muscular weakness that normally accompanies aging...
9/9/2010 The Lethal Mix Of Binge Drinking And High Blood Pressure
People with hypertension (high blood pressure) who binge drink are much more likely to die than other individuals, says a study published in the medical journal Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The definition of hypertension in this study was blood pressure of at least 168 /100 millimeters of mercury...
9/9/2010 Health Disparities Exist Among Black And Hispanic Kidney Donors
Black and Hispanic kidney donors are significantly more likely than white donors to develop hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, according to new Saint Louis University research published in the August 19, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "We've long known that diabetes and hypertension disproportionately affect blacks and Hispanics...
9/9/2010 Blood Pressure Increased By Common Hypertension Drugs In Certain Patients
Commonly prescribed drugs used to lower blood pressure can actually have the opposite effect - raising blood pressure in a statistically significant percentage of patients...
9/9/2010 Women Suffering From Cardiac Insufficiency Due To High Blood Pressure Are Older Than Men And Tire More Easily, But Their Hearts Are Stronger
Doctor Elena Zubillaga studied 109 women and 120 men admitted to hospital with a cardiac insufficiency solely due to high blood pressure. More concretely, she analysed the clinical, biochemical and ecocardiographical differences between the patients, depending on their sex...
9/9/2010 Moderate High-quality Chocolate Consumption May Protect Women From Heart Failure
Elderly and middle-aged women who eat a small amount of chocolate every week have a reduced risk of developing heart failure, Swedish researchers reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal...
9/9/2010 Generics As Good As Expensive New Blood Pressure Meds
Expensive brand-name medications to lower blood pressure are no better at preventing cardiovascular disease than older, generic diuretics, according to new long-term data from a landmark study. Paul Whelton, MB, MD, MSc, reported the results on Aug. 13 at the plenary session of the China Heart Congress and International Heart Forum in Beijing...
9/9/2010 Potential Treatment For Pulmonary Hypertension
Researchers in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta are one step closer to a treatment for a deadly disease. Pulmonary arterial hypertension, which is high blood pressure in the lungs, currently has only a few treatment options but most cases lead to premature death. It is caused by a cancer-like excessive growth of cells in the wall of the lung blood vessels...
9/9/2010 CHMP Adopts Positive Opinion For TWYNSTA®, Boehringer Ingelheim's New Single Pill Combination Hypertension Treatment
Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a Positive Opinion for the approval of TWYNSTAŽ...
9/9/2010 Hypertension And Chili Peppers
For those with high blood pressure, chili peppers might be just what the doctor ordered, according to a study reported in the August issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. While the active ingredient that gives the peppers their heat - a compound known as capsaicin - might set your mouth on fire, it also leads blood vessels to relax, the research in hypertensive rats shows...
9/9/2010 Risk Of Dying From Coronary Heart Disease Drops By 50% In USA
Americans have halved their risk of dying from coronary heart disease over the last two decades by smoking less, watching their cholesterol and reducing their high blood pressure. Even though current therapies for heart disease have also contributed towards the drop, by far the biggest factor has been preventing heart disease from developing in the first place...
9/9/2010 Treating Multiple Sclerosis With Antihypertensive Drug
Researchers in Heidelberg and Stanford have discovered a new signalling pathway of brain cells that explains how widely used antihypertensive drugs could keep inflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS) in check. The peptide angiotensin not only raises blood pressure but also activates the immunological messenger substance TGF beta on a previously unknown communication pathway in the brain...
9/9/2010 Researchers Identify Risks Of Hypertension In Young Adults
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveal in a new, large-scale study that "normal" blood pressure at age 17 can still predict hypertension at early adulthood and that teenage boys are three to four times more likely to develop high blood pressure in early adulthood than girls...
9/9/2010 FDA Approves Tribenzor™, A New Three-In-One Combination Product For The Treatment Of High Blood Pressure
Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. announced today that the U.S...
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