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Overweight male teens with normal blood pressures showing signs of heart damage
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Even while their blood pressures are still normal, overweight male teens may have elevated levels of a hormone known to increase pressures as well as early signs of heart damage, researchers say.
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System that regulates blood pressure is amiss in some healthy, young blacks
May 08, 2009 |
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When stress increases blood pressure, a natural mechanism designed to bring it down by excreting more salt in the urine doesn't work well in about one-third of healthy, black adolescents, researchers report.
OHSU researchers identify master switch that regulates blood pressure
Nov 01, 2007 |
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A team of Oregon Health & Science University researchers studying a rare form of hypertension has identified the mechanism by which they believe a protein complex in the kidney operates as a master switch that regulates blood ...
New Target for Maintaining Healthy Blood Pressure Discovered
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand the role of prostaglandins - a family of fatty compounds key to the cardiovascular system - in blood pressure maintenance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania ...
Researchers' discovery may lead to hypertension treatment
Nov 01, 2007 |
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For more than 40 years, researchers have suspected there must be a natural hormone that could safely flush sodium out of the body and could be harnessed to develop more effective and safer treatments for high ...
Hypertension drug dramatically reduces proteinuria in kidney disease patients
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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Taking a much higher than recommended dose of the hypertension drug candesartan cilexetil effectively lowered the amount of protein excreted in the urine of patients with kidney disease, according to a study appearing in ...
New guidelines for treating resistant hypertension
Jun 06, 2008 |
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Resistant hypertension, blood pressure that remains above goal despite taking three antihypertensive medications or high blood pressure that is controlled but requires four or more medications to do so, may benefit from specialized ...
Genes and drugs team up to lower blood pressure
Sep 13, 2007 |
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Patients with high blood pressure respond very differently to antihypertensive medication, making treatment selection tricky for physicians. But new research published in the online open access journal, BMC Medical Genetics, pinpoi ...
Seasonal variation in blood pressure
Jan 16, 2009 |
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A French study reported in the 12th January issue of Archives of Internal Medicine has found a strong correlation between blood pressure and outdoor temperature in a large sample of the elderly.(1) As a result, the invest ...
Study finds treatment fails to improve common form of heart failure
Dec 04, 2008 |
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A medication used for high blood pressure does not improve a common form of heart failure, according to new results from a large, international study.
Major paper informs debate on use of good cholesterol raising drugs in reducing heart disease
Nov 05, 2007 |
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An international clinical trial to test whether a drug with the ability to enhance levels of good cholesterol is effective in reducing major cardiovascular disease events, which was terminated prematurely because of a mortality ...
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