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 diurestics  and renal denervation therapy. 

An example of renal denervation therapy being delivered. A catheter is inserted into the renal artery to ablate the nerves in the vessel wall that regulate vasoconstriction. This leaves the vessel permanently in the widest open position to allow greater blood flow to the kidneys.
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May 30, 2018 — Despite the best efforts of clinicians to manage hypertension, it continues to increase and is now ...

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May 23, 2018 – At the 2018 EuroPCR Annual Meeting in Paris, Medtronic announced first-ever-data from the SPYRAL HTN-ON ...

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April 16, 2018 — Medtronic plc announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to begin an investigational ...

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April 5, 2018 — YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) and the American Heart Association (AHA) are combining efforts to help more ...

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March 28, 2018 — Population health enablement company Higi announced their commitment to implement the 2017 American ...

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A patient who received HeartMate III LVAD system at ACC.18. The HeartMate 3 was the topic of of the the key late-breaking trials at #ACC18
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There were several notable presentations of new data on cardiovascular technologies at the recent 2018 American College ...

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March 20, 2018 — A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-lowering medications significantly increased the ...

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March 20, 2018 — African-American men who received medical intervention aimed at controlling their high blood pressure w ...

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February 16, 2018 — California’s Petaluma Health Center (PHC) was recently awarded a 2017 Healthcare Information and ...

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December 6, 2017 — Women who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy are more likely to experience heart problems ...

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November 16, 2017 — Findings from a landmark study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) support a key ...

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September 14, 2017 — Marijuana use is associated with a three-fold risk of death from hypertension, according to ...

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September 6, 2017 — A new National Institutes of Health-funded hypertension trial will examine the possibility of using ...

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August 31, 2017 — Medtronic plc announced its intent to move forward with a new renal denervation pivotal trial ...

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August 30, 2017 — Vascular Dynamics Inc. announced interim results of the company’s first-in-human trial of its MobiusHD ...

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