Hypertension
Guidelines
AHA statement recommends dietary screening at routine checkups
Poor diet is the “No. 1” risk factor for heart disease, but most clinicians don’t discuss it. A new statement advocates routinely incorporating...
News
Hypertension often goes undertreated in patients with a history of stroke
Uncontrolled hypertension is common, even among those who have survived a stroke.
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Hypertension medication adjustment less likely with polypill
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Cleaner data confirm severe COVID-19 link to diabetes, hypertension
Initial reports that tied more severe COVID-19 disease to diabetes or hypertension used confounded data, but more refined data show similar links...
Conference Coverage
SGLT2 inhibitors, developed for T2D, now ‘belong to cardiologists and nephrologists’
When the SGT2 inhibitor drugs first came to the U.S. market they were labeled for just treating hyperglycemia, but those days are over.
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Steroids linked to increased hypertension in RA
“Hypertension is a side effect of [glucocorticoids] that seems to have been less well studied [than fractures], and yet it is an important...
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Self-measured BP monitoring at home ‘more important than ever’
A joint policy statement from the AHA and AMA reaffirms the value of self-measured blood pressure monitoring at home to detect and control...
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CVD risk continues to fall down to systolic BP of 90 mm HG
“From an individual level we can now say that in healthy individuals, a systolic pressure in the 90s is not too low. It is a positive thing.”
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Renal denervation response similar regardless of CV risks, comorbidities
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The emerging racial disparities in COVID-19 incidence and outcomes in the United States are on a collision course with long-standing racial...
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Aldosterone-driven hypertension found with unexpected frequency