Hypertension - News

• Small Brain Lesions Equal Big Stroke, Big Mortality Risk Very small brain lesions, which are often dismissed as benign, confer a significantly increased risk for stroke and stroke-related death in middle-aged and older adults.
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2015
• MI From Coronary Embolism Rarer but Higher Risk: Cohort Study In this first large study of patients with MI related to coronary artery embolism, the most common cause was AF, and patients had worse 5-year outcomes than patients with other types of MI.
  Heartwire from Medscape, July 08, 2015
• Illicit Amphetamines: Variable Impact on Male Sexual Function Illicit amphetamine use can have a negative effect on sexual function among men, but there is huge variability in the nature of their impact.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2015
• Alert FDA Approves Valsartan/Sacubitril (Entresto) for Heart Failure Its approval having bypassed the advisory-panel step and after impressing most observers in a major randomized trial, the novel agent is seen as something of a landmark in chronic heart-failure therapy.
  FDA Approvals, July 07, 2015
• Study Reignites Calls for Worldwide Controls on Sugary Drinks Asking patients about what they eat and drink is as important as questioning them about smoking habits, say the authors of a newly published study that highlights the need for urgent global action.
  Medscape Medical News, July 02, 2015
• Publication Boosts Liraglutide for Obesity, but Cost an Issue One-year data, now published, demonstrate significant weight loss and improved metabolic parameters with liraglutide in overweight and obese adults without diabetes at baseline.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2015
• Traumatic Events, PTSD Raise CVD Risk in Women A large study shows a robust link between trauma, PTSD, and increased risk for heart attack and stroke in women.
  Medscape Medical News, June 30, 2015
• ESH Simple DROP Score Appears to Identify Postural Hypotension Five variables may help spot older patients who are likely to have postural hypotension that puts them at increased risk of falls and earlier death; perhaps surprisingly, diabetes is not one of them.
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 29, 2015
• Glomerulonephritis Subtypes: Lupus Has Highest Mortality Rate A study of glomerulonephritis (GN) subtypes in ESRD reveals the heterogeneity of patients with GN, yet GN is usually reported as a single entity.
  Medscape Medical News, June 26, 2015
• ESH No J-Curve Relationship Between BP and Death in Clinic Study However, the researchers used a cutoff of 80 mm Hg, not 70 mm Hg, for low diastolic blood pressure, and they looked only at hard outcomes, not cardiovascular events.
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 26, 2015
• Alert Edoxaban (Lixiana) Approved for AF, DVT/PE in Europe The novel oral anticoagulant joins other factor Xa inhibitors and a direct thrombin inhibitor there to compete with the older vitamin-K antagonists; it's already sold in North America as Savaysa.
  International Approvals, June 26, 2015
• BP Increases Over 25 Years Linked With LV Dysfunction In CARDIA, many participants were not hypertensive at age 18 to 30 years, but chronic exposure to higher blood pressure was independently related to LV dysfunction 25 years later, report investigators.
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 25, 2015
• Less Than 10% of Post-MI Patients Receive an ICD While respecting the right to self-determination, an older patient should have the same opportunity as his/her younger counterpart to choose an ICD for primary prevention, according to an editorial.
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 24, 2015
• Pregnancy Outcomes Usually Good in Patients With Mild Lupus Pregnant women with inactive or stable mild or moderate SLE and no specific risk factors seldom have severe flares and have good outcomes, according to a prospective cohort study.
  Medscape Medical News, June 23, 2015
• ESH Puzzle: Increased LVEF Seen in Elevated SBP, No Hypertrophy A preliminary study sheds light on why "we may need to consider an ejection-fraction correction factor based on blood pressure," researchers say. "We hadn't expected to find this relationship."
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 19, 2015
• ESH Walking With Pedometer, Wireless BP Monitor Tied to BP Lowering There was no control group, but this is a large, real-world study using wireless, mobile devices that supports the relationship between increased activity and blood-pressure benefit, an expert notes.
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 18, 2015
• Pharmacist Prescribing Improves BP Control vs Usual Care: Study UPDATED // Allowing pharmacists to prescribe antihypertensive medications and adjust doses, if needed, resulted in significant reductions in BP over usual care. An editorial calls for putting this strategy into action now.
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 17, 2015
• ESH 'Wait and Watch' Young Patients With White-Coat Hypertension A study provides support for waiting, observing, and reevaluating young and middle-aged patients with type 1 hypertension but low cardiovascular risk, to avoid overtreating them, an expert says.
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 17, 2015
• ESH Years of Obesity Worsen Aortic Stiffness, Middle-Age Memory "It's an investment for the future," a researcher says, on the results of a UK long-term cohort study. "If you really control your body weight, you are able to make a difference for your cognition."
  Heartwire from Medscape, June 15, 2015
• SLEEP Severe Restless Legs Syndrome Linked to Increased Stroke New research highlights the importance of considering RLS severity when gauging associated stroke risk, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, June 15, 2015