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. 

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January 23, 2017 — Using data from a national study, Johns Hopkins researchers determined that using heart computed ...

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January 17, 2017 — The new SunTech Oscar 2 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system (ABPM) is now available ...

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Krishna Rocha-Singh, M.D., Prairie Vascular Institute, Springfield, Ill., explains advancements in device therapy for ...

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October 31, 2016 — White coat hypertension, where patients have high blood pressure readings in a medical setting but ...

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News | Renal Denervation

October 11, 2016 — Awards from the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund are supporting research on the peripheral ...

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News | Renal Denervation

August 23, 2016 — Technavio analysts forecast the global renal denervation market to grow at a compound annual growth ...

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August 22, 2016 — Obstructive sleep apnea is a common cause of high blood pressure. In the Aug. 17, 2016, issue of the ...

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June 9, 2016 — An international stroke study found that standard and intensive blood pressure treatments were equally ...

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April 20, 2016 — Lowering cholesterol with statins significantly reduced adverse cardiovascular events in people with ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

March 23, 2016 — Recent research published in The American Journal of Cardiology and led by Stephen Crouse, Ph.D., is ...

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News | Renal Denervation

February 17, 2016 — Up to 10 percent of people with high blood pressure have resistant hypertension — high blood ...

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January 15, 2016 — 2016 is starting off a whole lot better than last year for 14-year-old Oswaldo Jimenez of Salem, Ore ...

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January 4, 2016 — Living with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) is challenging, but the chore of treating the rare ...

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November 12, 2015 — A pharmacist-physician collaborative effort to control blood pressure among a diverse group of ...

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November 11, 2015 — Two of the country’s preeminent health organizations, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the ...

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