Simple approach best for blood pressure risk stratification
Calculating blood pressure load does not increase physicians’ ability to predict a patient’s risk of cardiovascular events, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - March 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Treatable factors linked to blood pressure variability in diabetes
Some factors that are associated with variability in home blood pressure in patients with Type 2 diabetes may be open to intervention, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - February 24, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Blood pressure effects unclear in long-term stroke survivors
Long-term survivors of stroke whose blood pressure is at target levels have worse outcomes than those with slightly elevated levels, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - February 17, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Caution against over-intensive BP control in diabetes patients
Very intensive control of blood pressure in patients with Type 2 diabetes does not prevent cognitive decline and may even be counterproductive, suggest findings from the ACCORD MIND substudy. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - February 10, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension common in severe heart failure
Pulmonary hypertension is common in patients with heart failure and is likely to include a pre-capillary component, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - February 7, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
ECG abnormalities progress during pulmonary arterial hypertension course
Researchers have identified a number of electrocardiography variables that progress between diagnosis and death in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - February 4, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Morning blood pressure tied to target-organ damage
Physicians should ask patients to take home blood pressure readings in the morning as well as the evening before making therapeutic decisions, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - February 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Chest radiography highly predictive of pulmonary hypertension
Chest radiography is very accurate for predicting pulmonary hypertension, report researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - February 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Single-pill combination antihypertensives have mixed adherence effects
Switching to single-pill combination antihypertensives results in marked improvements in medication adherence, except for in a subset of patients for whom the strategy may backfire, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - January 27, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Home blood pressure best guide to metabolic risk
Home blood pressure is a good guide to which patients are likely to have the metabolic syndrome, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - January 20, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Obesity interferes with blood pressure control
Patients who are overweight or obese have a high risk for uncontrolled blood pressure, despite often taking multiple antihypertensive agents, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - January 13, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Cardiovascular conditions may be overlooked in bipolar disorder
Cardiovascular comorbidities may be going under-recognized and undertreated in patients with bipolar disorder, say UK researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - January 11, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Tight blood pressure control urged in patients with cardiovascular disease
Intensive antihypertensive treatment to a systolic blood pressure target of 130 mmHg is equally beneficial for patients with and without established cardiovascular disease, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - January 6, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
‘Window for intervention’ to forestall hypertensive cognitive decline
Newly diagnosed hypertension is predictive of cognitive decline in middle-aged individuals and is worse in those with poorly controlled blood pressure, Dutch researchers have found. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - December 15, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Two-armed approach to vascular risk prediction
People with different blood pressures in their left and right arms have an increased risk for cardiovascular events, even if they do not have hypertension, shows a population-based analysis. (Source: MedWire News - Hypertension)
Source: MedWire News - Hypertension - December 9, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
