For half her life, 66-year-old Gael Lander struggled with high blood pressure that did not respond to the drugs usually prescribed. 2009/4/14 |
Scientists have identified the first common gene variants associated with an elevated risk of hypertension, a disease that affects around a billion people worldwide and can cause stroke, heart attack and kidney failure. 2009/2/16 |
Relieving high blood pressure could halve the number of Alzheimer's patients, an Australian researcher said recently. 2009/2/6 |
U.S. researchers have discovered a variant of a common gene linked to high-blood pressure, paving the way towards possible better treatments of the illness, a study said Monday. 2008/12/31 |
Harmful amounts of sodium can be found in unsalty foods such as breakfast cereal and bagels, according to Consumer Reports magazine. 2008/12/3 |
More than half of people in three European countries who were diagnosed with high blood pressure in a recent survey did not know they had the condition, according to a study published Wednesday. 2008/11/14 |
The lives of nearly 8,000 black Americans could be saved each year if doctors could figure out a way to bring their average blood pressure down to the average level of whites, a surprising new study found. 2008/11/12 |
Scientists in Japan have identified four proteins in chicken legs which appear to be effective in controlling high blood pressure, a study has said. 2008/10/10 |
People who have uncontrolled high blood pressure despite taking multiple blood pressure-lowering drugs can lower their blood pressure by adopting a low-salt diet, according to a study released today at the American Heart Association’s 62nd Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research in Atlanta. 2008/9/21 , 1 Comment |
Treating high blood pressure in the very elderly may help reduce their risk of developing dementia, researchers said on Monday. 2008/7/9 |


