ALLMedicine™ Hypertension Center

Jul 26th, 2021 - ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are equally guideline-recommended first-line treatments for hypertension, yet few head-to-head studies exist. We compared the real-world effectiveness and safe...

Jul 26th, 2021 - Combined inhibition of NEP (neutral endopeptidase) and ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme), without unwanted effects, remains an attractive therapeutic strategy in cardiovascular medicine. Omapatrilat, a dual NEP inhibitor-ACE inhibitor, was a pro...

Jul 26th, 2021 - To identify the association between serum beta-2-microglobulin (B2M) or cystatin C (CysC) and asymptomatic carotid atherosclerosis in patients with primary aldosteronism (PA). In this cross-sectional study, 265 subjects were enrolled, including 83...

Jul 26th, 2021 - The objective of our study was to determine the relationship between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the value of the aortic valve calcification score (AVCS) in people suffering from arterial hypertension (AH). 107 non-smokers wi...

Jul 26th, 2021 - No large-scale characterizations of neurofilament light chain (NfL) have been conducted in diverse populations. Baseline data were analyzed among n = 890 Mexican Americans and n = 813 non-Hispanic Whites from the multi-ethnic Health & Aging Brain ...

May 7th, 2021 - Cirrhosis is a heterogeneous disease that cannot be studied as a single entity and is classified in two main prognostic stages: compensated and decompensated cirrhosis. Portal hypertension, characterized by a pathological increase of the portal pr...

Apr 27th, 2021 - Hypertension is a prevalent condition that affects approximately 45% of the adult US population and is the most commonly diagnosed condition at outpatient office visits. Hypertension is a major contributing risk factor for heart failure, myocardia...

Feb 9th, 2021 - Patients present to primary care physicians with musculoskeletal complaints more often than they do for upper respiratory infections, hypertension, or diabetes. Despite this, instruction in musculoskeletal medicine for internal medicine residents ...

Jan 25th, 2021 - Management of bleeding gastric varices (GV) presents a unique challenge for patients with portal hypertension. Despite over thirty years of diagnostic and treatment advances standardized practices for bleeding GV are lacking and unsupported by ade...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in the US. Known modifiable risk factors for CVD include smoking, overweight and obesity, diabetes, elevated blood pressure or hypertension, dyslipidemia, lack of physical activity, and unhe...

May 7th, 2020 - This research protocol is designed to study the genetic basis of the clustering of several metabolic disorders including Type 2 diabetes (T2D), hypertension, cardiovascular diseases (CVD), obesity, and other related conditions in populations of th...

May 5th, 2020 - Post-operative visual loss (POVL) is a rare but serious complication after surgery. One of the known associations is prone spinal surgery with a prolonged duration. The cause is not completely understood, but some of the risk factors for developin...

May 5th, 2020 - Primary Aldosteronism (PA) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension, accounting for 6-8% of hypertension and 14-25% of resistant hypertension. This prevalence translates to approximately 1 in 30-50 adults or about 4,000,000 Americans wit...

May 5th, 2020 - Background: Approximately 10-15% of adults with hypertension are considered to be treatment resistant because their hypertension is uncontrolled despite taking three or more drugs that includes a diuretic. Renal denervation (RDN) is a novel treatm...

May 4th, 2020 - Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive disorder and the most common genetic disease affecting African-Americans. Approximately 0.15% of African-Americans are homozygous for sickle cell disease, and 8% have sickle cell trait. Acute pain crisi...

Jul 20th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new risk equation can accurately estimate the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progressing to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), the development team from France and Germany reports. The "Z6" risk equation is based ...

Jul 20th, 2021 - Takeaway A study found a non-linear inverse association between low birth weight (<2.88 kg) and the risk of hypertension. Furthermore, low birth weight and adult obesity (body mass index [BMI], ≥30 kg/m2) had a multiplicative interaction with resp...

Jul 14th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) follows an allogeneic stem-cell transplant, and it's either resistant to standard glucocorticoid therapy or dependent on glucocorticoids, ruxolitinib is better than other tr...

Jul 13th, 2021 - Takeaway The presence of hypertension and diabetes together was associated with a significantly increased risk of inpatient COVID-19 mortality. Furthermore, advanced age (>65 years), male sex, hypertension and cerebrovascular disease were independ...

Jul 11th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Ibrutinib is associated with rising blood pressure and increased risk of developing hypertension in patients with B cell malignancies, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data on 144 patients diagnosed with B cell maligna...