Hypertension News

• Cardiovascular Outcomes Better With Home Hemodialysis Home hemodialysis was linked to reduced cardiovascular risks vs peritoneal dialysis in a large study, but key caveats were noted.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Common Eye Disorder May Be Linked to Maternal Hypertension Children whose mothers have a hypertensive disorder in pregnancy are at increased risk for strabismus, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Treat Heart Failure More Like Cancer Heart failure should be handled more like cancer — with aggressive early treatment — targeting the cause of the disease, not just the symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Dangers of Intramuscular Fat Tissue Are Often Underestimated Intramuscular fat tissue increases the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Diabetes-Related Outcomes and Costs Have Mostly Improved In the past 20 years, diabetes-related cardiovascular outcomes and most treatment-related harms have decreased without increased medical expenses.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Testosterone Increases Metabolic Syndrome Risk in Trans Men Transmasculine individuals receiving testosterone had the highest risk for metabolic syndromes in a retrospective cohort study.
  Medscape, July 17, 2024
• Cardiovascular Health a Major Risk Factor for Dementia In a shifting landscape in dementia risk factors, cardiovascular health (or the health of your heart and blood vessels) is now taking precedence over other factors.
  WebMD Health News, July 01, 2024
• Alert Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Drug OK'd by Europe Winrevair improves exercise capacity in patients with the condition while taking background therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, June 28, 2024
• Novo Nordisk Ends Kidney Disease Trial, Books $816 Million Impairment in Q2 Novo Nordisk said on Wednesday it would recognise an impairment loss of about 5.7 billion Danish crowns ($816.72 million) in the second quarter of 2024, after its...
  Reuters Health Information, June 26, 2024
• AHS 2024 New Insight Into CVD, Stroke Risk in Migraine Researchers are delving deeper into the complicated relationships between migraine and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 26, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Updated SSc Recommendations Use 'Therapeutic Continuums' The recommendations highlighted the use of immunosuppressive agents and antifibrotics to treat skin fibrosis and lung fibrosis, as well as changes to upfront treatment of pulmonary hypertension.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2024
• 'Critical Gaps' Seen in Managing Moms' Postpartum BP Over 80% of women with new-onset hypertensive disorders in pregnancy have persistent hypertension postpartum, but treatment recommendations vary and are not consistently followed, new research showed.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2024
• BP Disorder in Pregnancy Tied to Young-Onset Dementia Risk Preeclampsia may be associated with more than double the risk for young-onset dementia, according to a French study.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2024
• Climate Change Worsens Air Pollution–Linked Health Problems Numerous studies have documented that exposure to polluted air is the main risk factor for the development of respiratory and cardiovascular disorders.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2024
• ADA 2024 Semaglutide Equally Effective in Women With HFpEF, Obesity Two new analyses of the STEP-HFpEF trials show that semaglutide led to more weight loss in women than in men and that the GLP-1 therapy also improves NYHA class.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• EuroPCR 2024 TAVI Fails Noninferiority to Surgery in Younger Patients In the first-ever randomized controlled trial of younger patients, TAVI did not reach the prespecified noninferiority threshold.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• DDW 2024 Women With Autoimmune Liver Disease Face Higher CVD Risks Women with autoimmune liver diseases (AILD) may face increased risks for major adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
  MDedge News, June 21, 2024
• Do Artificial Sweeteners Really Help People With Diabetes? The answer is NOT a resounding yes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 20, 2024
• Renowned Hypertension Expert George Bakris, MD, Dies During his career, Bakris published more than 500 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the areas of hypertension, diabetic kidney disease and progression of nephropathy.
  Medscape Medical News, June 20, 2024
• Aerovate Scraps Late-stage Development Of Lead Drug for Lung Disease Aerovate Therapeutics said on Monday it was scrapping the late-stage development of its lead experimental drug to treat a rare lung condition after it failed on key goals in...
  Reuters Health Information, June 17, 2024