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Hypertension
This page includes news and new technology on hypertension. The condition is caused by abnormally high blood pressure that causes excess force and pressure of the blood against the artery walls. Long-term, this can cause damage the vessels and contributes to heart disease. Therapies include antihypertensive medications such as diuretics and renal denervation therapy.
News | Renal Denervation | October 11, 2016
October 11, 2016 — Awards from the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund are supporting research on the...
News | Renal Denervation | August 23, 2016
August 23, 2016 — Technavio analysts forecast the global...
News | Hypertension | August 22, 2016
August 22, 2016 — Obstructive sleep apnea is a common cause of high blood pressure. In the Aug. 17, 2016, issue of...
Brain scan showing damage caused by bleeding during a hemorrhagic stroke. Image courtesy of Adnan I Qureshi, M.D., University of Minnesota.
News | Stroke | June 09, 2016
June 9, 2016 — An international stroke...
Image courtesy of Texas A&M University
News | Cardiac Diagnostics | March 23, 2016
March 23, 2016 — Recent research published in The American Journal of Cardiology and led by Stephen Crouse, Ph.D.,...
News | Renal Denervation | February 17, 2016
February 17, 2016 — Up to 10 percent of people with high blood pressure have...
2015 was a year of dramatic changes for Oswaldo and his family, seen here at his bedside, post-transplant surgery in July. Photo courtesy of Business Wire.
Feature | Cardiovascular Surgery | January 15, 2016
January 15, 2016 — 2016 is starting off a whole lot better than last year for 14-year-old Oswaldo Jimenez of Salem,...
News | Hypertension | January 04, 2016
January 4, 2016 — Living with pulmonary...
News | Hypertension | November 12, 2015
November 12, 2015 — A pharmacist-physician collaborative effort to control blood pressure among a diverse group of...
News | Hypertension | November 11, 2015
November 11, 2015 — Two of the country’s preeminent health organizations, the American Heart Association (AHA) and...
Videos | Renal Denervation | November 03, 2015
Robert Schwartz, M.D., medical director at the Minnesota Heart Institute, explains new applications for denervation...
Big data from regional health exchanges can help identify patients who are at high risk for developing cardiovascular disease and stroke based on blood pressure readings and trends from their office visits over time that arestored in the electronic health records. This information can be used to target these patients with more followups, education and more intensive prevention programs.
Feature | Population Health | September 22, 2015 | Jeff Zagoudis and Dave Fornell
As healthcare converts to an entirely electronic health record (EHR)-based system, it opens up new opportunities to...
