Hypertension Highlights

Hypertension Highlights: Does It All Begin and End With ALLHAT? Seven years after the first presentation of ALLHAT, we report results of the largest-ever hypertension study and discuss the possible future of antihypertensive therapy. And then -- champagne for all?
Experts And Viewpoints, March 18, 2010
Hypertension Highlights: Blood Pressure Targets, Global Risk Factors, and Diabetes -- the Latest Data Are not Encouraging Just when you thought you understood blood pressure targets, they pulled the rug. Also cardiovascular disease goes global, diabetes mellitus is taking precedence, and the uninsured are left out.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 25, 2010
Hypertension Highlights: The Underappreciated Risks for Cardiovascular Disease The latest for clinicians who treat patients with hypertension: new statistics on how deadly it is, recent advances in treatment, and more good news about drinking in moderation.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 07, 2010
ARBs, Diuretics, and Noise -- Plus New Guidelines for Children The precise benefit vs no benefit profile of ARBs continues to be investigated and elucidated -- plus good news for diuretics, bad news for traffic noise, and new European pediatric guidelines.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 23, 2009
Hypertension Highlights: Updates for European Guidelines, Plus New Evidence for Blood Pressure Targets and Strategies Europeans have published updated, current evidence-based hypertension guidelines. But new analyses give clinicians important insights into which patients should be treated and to which targets.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 12, 2009
Salt, Salt, Salt -- Plus Sleep and Job Stress: More Data to Share With Your Patients Here are the real, hard numbers to convince patients (and clinicians) that decreasing the substances they consume, not increasing the pills they take, is the cure for life-threatening hypertension.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 09, 2009
Hypertension Cost Is Staggering: Solutions -- Any Drug, IT, and a Vaccine? To meet the trillion-dollar challenge of hypertension worldwide, can any drug, an IT monitoring program, and possibly a vaccine against cytomegalovirus be the solution?
Experts And Viewpoints, August 06, 2009
Despite JNC-7, Old Prescribing Practices Persist Did ALLHAT and JNC-7 change antihypertension prescribing practices? Won't the new multi-drug first-line treatment approvals change practice more?
Experts And Viewpoints, June 17, 2009
Filling in the Blanks: Simplified Treatments for Hypertension and CHF, Plus Possible Vaccines, Device Therapy -- and the Polypill As the era of new blockbuster therapies for individual aspects of the cardiovascular system fades, further improvements in actual treatment outcomes continue to be demonstrated.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 04, 2009
Controlling Blood Pressure With Drug Combinations and, Maybe, Chickens, Eggs, and Nuts Highlights target combo drugs, benefits of controlled BP on dialysis and prevention of AD, and suggests chicken, eggs, and nuts can help.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 27, 2009
P-4-P and HTN Control, Role of Thiazide-type Diuretics, World Kidney Day World Kidney Day focuses on blood pressure (BP). Does pay for performance work? Does BP rise in winter? Plus the role of hydrochlorothiazide, a new first-in-class drug, and ACE inhibitor in our water?
March 24, 2009
New Trial Data, Guidelines, and Epidemiology of Stress, HTN, and Breast CA Two drugs, but which 2, to initiate hypertension treatment? Might a statin affect central blood pressure like a beta-blocker? Does stress affect lipids, and hypertension affect breast cancer?
Experts And Viewpoints, March 04, 2009
Differences That May Explain Hypertensive Risk Who becomes hypertensive, why, and with how much risk? The evidence continues to evolve in ways that clinicians need to know and understand.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 12, 2009
New ASH Diabetes Guidelines, Plus Data on Hypertension Prevalence How can both blood pressure control and hypertension prevalence increase? New guidelines for treating diabetes? Are RAS inhibitors different? Do beta-blockers cause harm? And do polypills really work?
Experts And Viewpoints, November 26, 2008
The 10-Year Hypertension Follow-up of UKPDS -- Plus AF, Children, & Drivers News this month includes a 10-year follow-up of the hypertension arm of the UK diabetes study, a statistical relation to achieved blood pressure and AFib, proof of concept with allopurinol, and more.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 29, 2008
The Benefits and Strategies for Treating Elderly Hypertensive Patients Do the benefits of treating elderly hypertensive patients outweigh any "risks"? New data not only provide answers -- they also define strategies and parameters.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 23, 2008
Antihypertensive ARB Therapy Protects Children Against Alzheimer's How should we treat the very young? Or the elderly with cognitive challenges? New data provide answers, support ARBs, equivocate on endothelin antagonists, and fail to find genes for salt restriction.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 26, 2008
Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Gender, and Race Hypertension, diabetes, race, gender, and age -- not to mention SBP vs DBP: findings this month challenge long-held beliefs and practices and underline how simple improving patient outcomes could be.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 18, 2008
ISH and Three New Classes of Antihypertensive Drugs New data on the worldwide burden of hypertension, new US guidelines for BP monitoring, the latest BPLTTC meta-analysis, and no less than 3 potential new classes of antihypertensive drugs this month.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 26, 2008
New Guidelines for Resistant Hypertension From the AHA This month sees new AHA guidelines, new explanations for the benefits of statins, protection against headaches, happily married vs single life, and proof of regression in an imaging study.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 05, 2008

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