Nearly 50 million Americans have high blood pressure. Older women are particularly likely to develop high blood pressure. More than half of all women over age 60 have it. Others who are at a high risk ...

This relaxes the blood vessels to reduce hypertension (high blood pressure ... Narrow arteries are one of the biggest causes of angina, making the vasodilatory effect so important. CCBs can also lower ...

Researchers find that moderate daily intake of coffee and tea is associated with reduced risk of all-cause and vascular dementia in people with hypertension, based on data from 453,913 ...

Hannah needs a biopsy. He pencils her in for Tuesday; Thursdays are too busy. She has three malignant tumours. Her doctor chastises her for crying after he and his staff botch delivering her ...

(1) In VSMCs in vitro and in vivo, angiotensin II activation of AT 1 receptor causes mitochondrial fragmentation via the EGFR transactivation. Mitochondrial fission seems to be an essential step for ...

This article discusses the causes of sudden high blood pressure ... Another term for high blood pressure is hypertension. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), a person has stage ...

The World Health Organization estimates that there are at least 270 million people living with hypertension in China — a fraction of whom are being adequately treated, if at all. Part of the ...

Resistant hypertension is characterized by elevated blood pressure (BP) despite using 3 antihypertensive agents. Ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) detects the presence of white-coat resistant ...

The 2017 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults classifies stage 1 hypertension as having top or bottom blood pressure ...

Medicare Part B may cover ABPM once per year. For Medicare to cover ABPM, a person must have either suspected white coat hypertension or suspected masked hypertension. In either case, the person ...

From 17 of the 24 patients with malignant hypertension, the blood was obtained at the time of admission to the hospital before the institution of antihypertensive therapy. In 96 of the clinic ...