Adolescent arterial stiffness – a novel risk factor for hypertension and insulin resistance in young adulthood and for type 2 diabetes mellitus in mid-adulthood: Emerging evidence suggests that arterial stiffness may be a novel risk factor to be targeted in the prevention and treatment of vascular and metabolic diseases from a young age, a review […]
Curtin University researchers will examine if the long-term use of a popular blood pressure medication increased the risk of breast cancer in almost 200,000 women as part of a new project supported by the Australian Federal Government. The new research, awarded an NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Grant, will investigate the link between the […]
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Teen boys with hypertension on the rise: Ahead of World Hypertension Day on 17 May, MedUni Vienna is raising awareness about the growing number of children and adolescents with high blood pressure. Unhealthy levels are increasing globally, especially during puberty, with boys affected three to four times more frequently than girls: around 20% of male […]
Arterial stiffness is a novel risk factor to be targeted for preventing and treating hypertension and obesity from a young age, a new study published in Hypertension suggests. Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Exeter, and the University of Bristol carried out the study using data from one of the world’s […]
The combined effect of hypertension and fatty liver disease on mortality does not seem to exceed their separate effects, according to a 34-year follow-up study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland. The results were published in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology and will be discussed at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension 2021 Scientific […]
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More than 700 million people with untreated hypertension. The number of people living with hypertension has doubled to 1.28 billion since 1990. The number of adults aged 30-79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends in hypertension prevalence, […]
In what could be a new pathway for drug therapies to treat hypertension, a team of brain researchers have discovered that zinc plays a key role in lowering blood pressure. Your movements, your thoughts, the constant operation of your organs – it all depends on your arteries channelling oxygen-rich blood to where it’s needed, releasing […]
Kids’ blood pressure measurements substantially different between arms, potential for misdiagnosis: Blood pressure measurements in children and adolescents should be taken from both arms after new research showed substantial differences could be seen depending on which arm was used. The study, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in the Journal of Hypertension, found even a […]
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COVID-19 Series: Cardiac and cardiovascular issues – Episode 28 Hypertension and pre-existing cardiac conditions are risk factors for higher morbidity from COVID-19. The reasons for this are not entirely clear, but there are theoretical risks that the inflammatory cascade could predispose towards rupture of atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries and aggravate arrhythmias. This webinar will […]
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Christmas is the season of giving and goodwill and NHS Digital has trawled through the analytics of NHS Choices over the past year to bring you the numbers behind what the nation is searching for via this improvised Christmas Carol. On the first day of Christmas NHS Choices gave to me – 525 million reasons […]