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Diet, Weight Drug May Curb Hypertension  -  25 Mar 2008
CBS News,Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight helps treat or prevent high blood pressure (hypertension). And a healthy diet and active lifestyle are important

Parents' High Blood Pressure Associated With Increased Risk Of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Science Daily (press release)24, 2008) â€” Individuals who have one or two parents with hypertension appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing elevated blood pressure

Cameroon: Les Brasseries Du Cameroun Fights Against Diabetes ...  -  25 Mar 2008
AllAfrica.com,As part of the campaign, the company sensitises local populations on diabetes and hypertension; carries out free screening and distributes free drugs to

High Blood Pressure Runs In Families  -  25 Mar 2008
CBS News,..."Men with both parents with hypertension or men with one parent who was hypertensive before the age of 55 years had a much higher risk of developing

Methamphetamine use and pulmonary arterial hypertension  -  25 Mar 2008
News-Medical.net,The Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA), in conjunction with leading pulmonary hypertension specialists, has announced the launch of an educational

Parents Pass On Hypertension Risk to Their Children  -  25 Mar 2008
MedPage Today,By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today BALTIMORE, March 24 -- Men whose parents have hypertension are at an increased risk for developing high blood

High Blood Pressure Runs in Families  -  25 Mar 2008
U.S. News & World Report,A family history of hypertension is well-established as a warning sign -- researchers estimate that 35 percent to 65 percent of high blood pressure is

There will be blood pressure  -  25 Mar 2008
Ottawa Citizen,Citizen journalist Don Butler, who recently underwent 24-hour monitoring of his blood pressure, gets to the bottom of hypertension, the leading risk factor

Parents 'pass high blood pressure to sons'  -  25 Mar 2008
Daily Mail,Hypertension, the medical term, affects 16 million Britons and is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke and kidney failure.

APS names 2 minority outreach fellows  -  25 Mar 2008
EurekAlert (press release),Dr. Gwathmey, an African-American, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at the Wake Forest University School of

Does the Middle Way really help?  -  25 Mar 2008
Economic Times,According to it, â€œAdding TM is about equivalent to adding a second anti-hypertension agent to oneâ€™s current regimen, only safer and less troublesome.

Lung patients 'condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Daily Mail,The condition, pulmonary hypertension, affects an estimated 4000 people in the UK. Only a quarter of these need the most expensive level of treatment.

Study: Blood Pressure Influenced By Parents  -  25 Mar 2008
TurnTo23.com,The odds of developing high blood pressure -- also called hypertension -- can increase because of many factors, from advancing age, to obesity to smoking.

Save Your Heart With Diet and Medication  -  25 Mar 2008
Ivanhoe,...(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Approximately seven million people worldwide die each year from high blood pressure (hypertension), a major risk factor for

Teen awaiting lungs transplant  -  25 Mar 2008
The Republican - MassLive.com,Tessier, a lifelong city resident who attended Center and White Brook Middle Schools, was diagnosed in 2000 with primary pulmonary hypertension,

Beetroot for BP  -  25 Mar 2008
Deccan Herald,In addition, hypertension causes around 50% of coronary heart diseases and approximately 75% of strokes! Scientists around the globe are working hard to

Parents Might Be Passing On High Blood Pressure  -  25 Mar 2008
cbs4denver.com,The study shows there's something going on genetically in certain groups of family that makes them prone to hypertension. "If you have high blood pressure

New Treatment For High Blood Pressure  -  25 Mar 2008
WLOX,It's called the Rheos Baroreflex Hypertension Therapy System. "If my blood pressure goes up, it's supposed to bring it down. If it goes too low,

Head of black marathoners comes home  -  25 Mar 2008
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...â€œIâ€™ve been running away from diabetes and hypertension, which are in my family on both sides, ever since,â€? he said. Yet he recalls with a laugh the first

SSA former leader dies from hypertension  -  Mar 24, 2008
Shan Herald Agency for News,A doctor diagnosed that his blood vessels in the brain were damaged by hypertension. His body will be cremated today. Hsarm Moon Tom, a native of Kyaukme,

Red Wine May Reduce â€˜Hypertensionâ€™ In Older Women â€“ A New Study  -  Mar 23, 2008
TopNews,The study also indicates that the red-wine compounds may help cut hypertension plus the risks or complications linked with it including inflammation of the

Commonly Used Pain Relievers Linked With Increased Risk Of High ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Online - International News Network,Previous studies have suggested that the use of NSAIDs causes a small increase in blood pressure and increases the risk of hypertension, whereas aspirin and

Street medicine's hard choices  -  Mar 23, 2008
Los Angeles Times,After a few more visits in the park, he finally agreed to see me at the clinic for treatment of his diabetes and hypertension. I declared proudly to anyone

Is Red Wine Good for Hypertension  -  Mar 21, 2008
Indian Wine Academy,In yet another study with many ifs and buts, researchers in Spain have claimed that the compounds found in red wine could potentially help ease hypertension

Age of Transfused Blood & Risk of Complications after Surgery ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
Men's News Daily,Historically, CHF has been viewed as a disease of the elderly, often occurring after decades of poorly controlled hypertension, or after heart attacks have

Compound Found in Red Wine Could Reduce Hypertension in ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
Wine Spectator (subscription),Compounds found in red wine could potentially help ease hypertension in postmenopausal women, according to a study that will be published in the April 2008

High blood pressure nothing to scoff at, says UAB expert  -  Mar 24, 2008
The Birmingham News - al.com,Dr. David Calhoun is medical director of UAB's Vascular Biology Hypertension Program. Here is his expert opinion on high blood pressure: I've heard it said

Diabetes and hypertension cause kidney problems  -  Mar 14, 2008
Daily Times,ISLAMABAD: Diabetes and hypertension are the two major causes of chronic kidney diseases, said Dr Khawaja Saeed, consultant nephrologist,

Study links marriage stress, risk of hypertension  -  Mar 21, 2008
Arizona Daily Star,AP NEW YORK â€” A happy marriage is good for your blood pressure, but a stressed one can be worse than being single, a preliminary study suggests.

Roll Up Your Sleeve: Hypertension vaccine passes early test  -  Mar 14, 2008
Science NewsThe biggest problem doctors face in treating hypertension is patients' failure to take their pills, says Sheila Gardiner, a cardiovascular physiologist at

Could hypertension be treated with a vaccine?  -  Mar 19, 2008
Healthcare RepublicA four-monthly vaccination could one day replace pills as the mainstay of hypertension treatment, according to media reports. A clinical trial found that

Hospital helps slow progress of child's pulmonary hypertension  -  Mar 19, 2008
Los Angeles Daily News,They soon diagnosed him with pulmonary hypertension, a rare and often deadly disease usually found in older women that results in high blood pressure in the

Vaccination Could Treat Hypertension  -  Mar 18, 2008
Medical News Today,Immunization against angiotensin II could provide an alternative treatment for hypertension, according to an article in the March 8, 2008 issue of The

Heart, Hypertension Mandates Hurt Cities, Towns  -  Mar 3, 2008
Hartford Courant,These proposals would resurrect the state's heart disease and hypertension mandate, and also mandate new benefits for cancers and infectious and contagious

Researchers develop jab to control hypertension  -  Mar 7, 2008
Hindu,...out humans trials of the injection and found that the vaccine against a hormone in the blood significantly cuts hypertension with few side effects.

Generex Biotechnology to Make Presentations At International ...  -  Mar 6, 2008
FOXBusiness...announced today that it will be making three poster presentations at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Hypertension, Lipids, Diabetes & Stroke

Alcohol Intake Increases Risk Of Hypertension, High Blood Pressure ...  -  Mar 5, 2008
Science Daily (press release)4, 2008) â€” Previous observational studies have reported that heavy alcohol intake is a risk factor for hypertension but such studies may be confounded by

Drinking 'linked to hypertension'  -  Mar 3, 2008
The Press AssociationThe PLoS Medicine article said previous studies have reported heavy alcohol intake is a risk factor for high blood pressure - or hypertension - but such

Dong-A PharmTech Co., Ltd. Announces Portal Hypertension Clinical ...  -  Feb 26, 2008
FOXBusinessThe multi-center, European study is designed to investigate the safety and efficacy of udenafil in a study population of patients with portal hypertension

What is hypertension?  -  Mar 3, 2008
Jamaica Gleaner,Hypertension is sustained high blood pressure. You can tell if you have high blood pressure only by the use of a blood pressure machine (called a

Dumaguing: Aircraft noise and blood pressure  -  Mar 23, 2008
Sun.Star,People with high blood pressure (hypertension) have an increased risk of developing heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and dementia.

Atlanta's CardioMEMS Receives $2M Grant  -  Mar 24, 2008
WRAL.com,The firm is developing heart failure and hypertension sensors. It planned to trade on the Nasdaq. Banc of America Securities was the lead underwriter,

Urine Protein May Be Present Before Hypertension Diagnosis In At ...  -  Feb 28, 2008
Science Daily (press release)27, 2008) â€” A protein that is an early indicator of kidney dysfunction in adults may predict hypertension in black adolescents, Medical College of Georgia

EMC, Partners collaborate on hypertension program  -  Feb 26, 2008
Boston Globe,EMC Corp. and a division of Partners HealthCare announced a collaboration today that aims to help EMC employees with hypertension to better manage their

Patients With Psoriasis At Increased Risk For Developing Other ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Science Daily (press release)...the disease â€“ even when accounting for major cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, smoking, diabetes and hypertension,â€? explained Dr. Kimball.

New Hypertension Treatment "Takes The Pressure Off"  -  Mar 14, 2008
North American Press Syndicate,...(NAPSI)-For the 72 million Americans suffering from hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, a new beta blocker is available for managing their

After Surviving Stroke, Bank Exec Spreads the Word on Healthy ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
Pinoy Press,Pomer shared she did not realize the gravity of hypertension before the stroke. She found about it earlier during the wake of her mother-in-law in Bataan.

Large Disparities in Kidney Testing Based on Disease, Gender and ...  -  Mar 13, 2008
CNNMoney.comDiabetes and hypertension are the two leading risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD), responsible for up to two-thirds of cases.

Blacks Hit Harder by Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension  -  Mar 12, 2008
MedPage Today,By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today ATLANTA, March 12 -- In pseudotumor cerebri, a rare condition also called idiopathic intracranial hypertension,

Does This Patient Have Bacterial Peritonitis or Portal ...  -  Mar 11, 2008
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is more likely at predescribed parameters of ascitic PMN count or bloodâ€“ascitic fluid pH, and portal hypertension is less

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