Blood Pressure Monitoring Made Easy For Women
Heart disease is the number one cause of death for women over the age of 25, more than all cancers combined.
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Blood Pressure Drugs Halt Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth
Researchers are inching closer to understanding how common blood pressure medications might help prevent the spread of pancreatic cancer.
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Blood Pressure Protects Against Headache
Both increased systolic blood pressure and pulse pressure are related to arterial stiffness and may decrease headache prevalence through modulation of the baroreflex arch, which in turn generates hypoalgesia.
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Relaxation Training May Improve Systolic Hypertension Control
Adding the relaxation response, a stress-management approach, to other lifestyle interventions may significantly improve treatment of the type of hypertension most common in the elderly.
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Telmisartan Blood Pressure Drug Has Fewer Side Effects
A new blood pressure medicationTelmisartan is effective in reducing cardiovascular death, with fewer side effects than the current standard of care.
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Relaxation Training May Improve Control Of Systolic Hypertension
Adding the relaxation response, a stress-management approach, to other lifestyle interventions may significantly improve treatment of the type of hypertension most common in the elderly.
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Happily Married People Have Lower Blood Pressure
People in happy marriages have lower blood pressure compared to singles and those who are not happy with marriage.
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Vaccine To Regulate Blood Pressure
A new vaccine may lower high blood pressure.
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Drinking Boosts Blood Pressure
Even moderate drinkers are at high risk for high blood pressure. Previous studies proved heavy alcohol consumption leads to hypertension, but this study shows that even those drinking not that much significantly suffer from blood pressure.
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Noise Pollution Boosts Blood Pressure
Aircraft or traffic noise boosts blood pressure even when you sleep.
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Diuretics Is Better Than Other Drugs For Treating Hypertension
Use of calcium-channel blockers appears to offer no advantages in improving clinical outcomes compared with use of diuretics when treating hypertension among individuals with metabolic syndrome.
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Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Is Important
Relatively unknown to most consumers, morning hypertension is a serious condition known to significantly increase a patient's risk of stroke.
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Black Men Most Likely Kidney Disease Patients To Have Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure
Black men with kidney disease and high blood pressure are more likely than others to not have their blood pressure under control, which could worsen their kidney disease.
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New Device May Replace Blood Pressure Medication
Physicians are leading a new clinical trial to treat hypertension by implanting a medical device that stimulates the body's own natural system to lower blood pressure.
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US Adults Knowledgeable About High Blood Pressure
Most Americans are knowledgeable about high blood pressure, but less than 50 percent know that it's associated with heart attack and stroke.
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Diuretics Most Effective Blood Pressure Medication
In people with high blood pressure as part of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that increases the risk for heart disease, diuretics offer greater protection against cardiovascular disease.
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FDA Approves New Beta Blocker To Treat High Blood Pressure
FDA has approved Bystolic (nebivolol) for the treatment of high blood pressure.
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FDA Approves Nebivolol For Hypertension Treatment
Mylan has received an approvable letter from FDA in response to its NDA for nebivolol (proposed brand name Bystolic), a novel beta blocker under review for the treatment of hypertension.
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Elderly Black Women More Likely To Maintain Hypertension Treatment
Elderly black women who use spirituality might be more successful adhering to a hypertension regimen.
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Hypertension Treatment, Control For Heart Failure Patients Varies By Race, Gender
Hypertension treatment and control among patients who have been hospitalized for heart failure varies significantly by race and gender.
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Common Medications Provide Equal Blood Pressure Control
Two common classes of blood pressure medications are equally effective at controlling high blood pressure.
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Lower Blood Pressure Without Drugs
Soft Touch Chiropractic has long maintained that techniques exist to naturally reduce dependence on many prescription drugs, including blood pressure medications.
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AZOR Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of High Blood Pressure
FDA has approved Daiichi Sankyo's AZOR (amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil) for the treatment of hypertension, also known as high blood pressure.
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Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Highest Among Hispanics
National Alliance for Hispanic Health is launching a new national program called Hypertension ... Control is in your Hands.
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Nebivolol Lowers Blood Pressure In Mild-To-Moderate Hypertensive Patients
Nebivolol, a selective beta 1-blocker with vasodilating properties, significantly reduced sitting diastolic and systolic blood pressure among patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension.
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Florida Hospital Surgically Implants Medical Device For Hypertension Treatment
Florida Hospital Orlando implanted its first investigational medical device in a patient to treat uncontrolled high blood pressure.
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Blood Pressure Frequently Undiagnosed in Children, Adolescents
Blood pressure is oftent not properly diagnosed in children and adolescents. In a study of children and adolescents with hypertension, only about one in four had been previously diagnosed with the condition.
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Blood pressure in African Americans proves elusive
Researcher will continue to study how exercise can fight blood pressure.
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High Blood Pressure Problems Largely Misunderstood by Sufferers
The distrust of healthcare providers shown by people with high blood pressure impedes effective treatment.
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Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitor With Utility Spurs Revision Of Hypertension Treatment Guidelines
Diagnosis, treatment, prevention of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases is set to improve worldwide following recent amendment to treatment guidelines, encouraged by non-invasive blood pressure monitor.
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FDA Approves Orphan Drug For Treatment Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Letairis (ambrisentan) for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare, life-threatening condition characterized by continuous high blood pressure within the arteries of the lungs.
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Soy nuts may improve blood pressure in postmenopausal women
Substituting soy nuts for other protein sources in a healthy diet appears to lower blood pressure in postmenopausal women, and also may reduce cholesterol levels in women with high blood pressure.
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To Control Blood Pressure Combination Of Medicines May Be Best
Single tablets containing two drugs may be the key to increasing blood pressure control rates from 36 percent to over 80 percent in the U.S.
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Benicar Reductions In Seated Systolic Blood Pressure For Stage 2 Patients
Fixed-dose combination BENICAR HCT was associated with a greater mean reduction in seated systolic blood pressure at 12 weeks in patients with Stage 2 hypertension, compared with amlodipine + benazepril study doses.
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Cause of gender differences in blood pressure, kidney damage
While men and women both get high blood pressure and related kidney disease, the path to get there is shorter, steeper and just different for men.
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AAHFN Promotes Awareness During National High Blood Pressure Education Month
High blood pressure is known among doctors and medical professionals as a "silent killer." Nearly one in three adults in the U.S. has high blood pressure but shows no symptoms of this potentially lethal condition.
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UQ researchers identify thousands with curable high blood pressure
Surgery is the only chance these people have of a blood pressure cure. Their quality of life improves dramatically without the side affects caused by blood pressure medications.
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Cocoa better than tea for lowering blood pressure
Lowering blood pressure may be possible by foods that are rich in cocoa; however, drinking tea may not help
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Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitor With Continuous Beat-By-Beat Recording
The availability of a non-invasive blood pressure measurement is an important step in enabling the advancement of non-invasive preclinical research
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Tekturna First New Type of High Blood Pressure Medicine
Tekturna Provides Additional Blood Pressure Reduction When Used With Diovan.
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