Archive for the ‘Hypertension’ Category
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
A novel way of regulating blood pressure has been discovered by British scientists. This breakthrough could lead to innovative drugs that fight heart attacks and stroke.
One quarter of UK adults suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure). Despite being treated with potent medication, many never manage to get their blood pressure ...
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Diovan(R) (valsartan) has been granted pediatric exclusivity by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) based on studies conducted in children with high blood pressure. This action extends marketing exclusivity associated with the valsartan compound patent by six months from March to September 2012.
Although high blood pressure is more prevalent ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
The distrust of healthcare providers shown by people with high blood pressure impedes effective treatment, as emphasized in a new study published in Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. In a systematic review and metasynthesis of eleven qualitative studies published between 2000 and 2005, including more than 500 ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
The distrust of healthcare providers shown by people with high blood pressure impedes effective treatment, as emphasized in a new study published in Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. In a systematic review and metasynthesis of eleven qualitative studies published between 2000 and 2005, including more than 500 ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Practising physicians are nowadays presented with official guidelines on the treatments they should give their patients. In an article published in PLoS Medicine, researchers have attempted to grade the quality of evidence used in drawing up the recommendations contained in guidelines for the treatment of patients with diabetes, high blood ...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Infants whose mothers smoke during pregnancy have substantially higher blood pressures in their first months of life, Dutch researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. A study of 456 infants in The Netherlands showed that, by age 2 months, babies born to mothers who smoked had higher ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
A new report from the Institute of Medicine finds suggestive but limited evidence that exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the Vietnam War is associated with an increased chance of developing high blood pressure in some veterans. The report is the latest update in a congressionally mandated ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Results from a new study involving high blood pressure patients taking Tekturna (aliskiren) and Diovan (valsartan) were published today in The Lancet. The study, presented earlier this year at the American College of Cardiology congress, shows this combination provides patients with greater blood pressure reductions than either medicine alone and ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Researchers at the University of Alberta have identified a "central command system" for pulmonary hypertension, a disease that currently has no cure and kills thousands each year.
"We believe this finding opens the door to a new strategy and the development of a new stream of drugs to treat this complex ...
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