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Hypertension
Hypertension is another name for high blood pressure. It can lead to severe complications and increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, and death. Blood pressure is the force exerted by the blood against the walls of the blood vessels. The pressure depends on the work being done by the heart and the resistance of the blood vessels. Medical guidelines define hypertension as a blood pressure higher than 130 over 80 millimeters of mercury (mmHg), according to guidelines issued by the American Heart Association (AHA) in November 2017. Around 85 million people in the United States have high blood pressure. Hypertension and heart disease are global health concerns. The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that the growth of the processed food industry has impacted the amount of salt in diets worldwide, and that this plays a role in hypertension.
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MAY 19, 2016
Cardiology
Jessica Wagenseil, PhD, and her team from Washington University in St. Louis compared plaque buildup in two mice groups:
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 16, 2016
Health & Medicine
The first ever case of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) has been found for the first time ever in a dog. Doctors
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 29, 2016
Health & Medicine
Whether spontaneous or due to genetic predisposition, occurrence of pulmonary hypertension is very detrimental to heart
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 27, 2016
Health & Medicine
For most patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) who die, the cause of death is heart disease. Although N
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 23, 2016
Videos
What's just as bad as obesity, smoking, and hypertension? Surprisingly, it's the common feeling of loneliness. Psycholog
...
MAR 15, 2016
Videos
New information released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that approximately one-third o
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 07, 2016
Immunology
Children with asthma, hay fever, and eczema have about twice the rate of high blood pressure and cholesterol, putting th
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 02, 2016
Cardiology
Cornelia Weyand, MD, and her team of scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine are investigating the causes
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 19, 2016
Cardiology
At the recent International Stroke Conference of 2016, researchers presented a study that connected untreated high blood
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 16, 2016
Cardiology
Cardiogenic shock, however rare, can occur after a heart attack, exacerbating the effect of inadequate circulation on ti
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 27, 2016
Cardiology
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) leads to lethal cardiac failure after oxygen depletion in the heart exceeds a “c
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 25, 2016
Cardiology
Children with asthma, hay fever, and eczema have about twice the rate of high blood pressure and cholesterol, putting th
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 19, 2016
Neuroscience
Having a stroke can leave a person with significant impairments in movement, cognitive ability and speech. It is the thi
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 16, 2016
Cardiology
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a disease without a cure that a thousand new Americans every year, requires numer
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 12, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Men who are taking (or looking to take) over-the-counter sexual supplements may want to reconsider, says a new study pub
...
JAN 10, 2016
Health & Medicine
A new study finds that the quantity and the quality of our personal relationships, at different points of our lives, imp
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
DEC 29, 2015
Cardiology
Recent data combined from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry and ACTION Registry-GWTG have ident
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 26, 2015
Cardiology
Taking preventative measures in cases of high risk for cardiovascular disease could be the new way to reduce the inciden
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 18, 2015
Cardiology
Whether a person is especially at risk for cardiovascular disease or just exceptionally proactive about their health, a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 21, 2015
Cardiology
Neurofibromin is an important protein found in all of your cells that naturally suppresses tumor formation and is an ant
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 29, 2015
Neuroscience
The saying “You are what you eat” is proving pretty accurate in regards to diet and brain health. Two studie
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 27, 2015
Immunology
We depend on our immune cells to protect us against infections from foreign invaders like bacteria, viruses, and parasit
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 26, 2015
Immunology
Sirolimus, an immunosuppressant drug, as recently been used in clinical trials for patients with autoimmune blood disord
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 24, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The immune system not only responds to infections and other potentially problematic abnormalities in the body. It also c
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider