University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are calling for a wider study of racial differences in high blood pressure after finding two clinical measures that are significantly greater in Blacks ...

Charles Burger, MD: Pulmonary hypertension really refers to a state where the right heart is generating high pressures to circulate the blood through the lung. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a ...

A research team has investigated structural changes in kidneys of patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes. The results show that high blood pressure can lead to abnormalities in the podocytes, ...

High blood pressure (BP) and increases in BP are associated with brain pathologies in later life, new research suggests. Investigators tracked BP from early adulthood through late life (ages 39 – 69 ...

Does high blood pressure increase the risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease? Although several studies have highlighted hypertension as a potential AD risk factor, getting prominent play in the press, ...

Once-daily aprocitentan (Tryvio) is the first and only FDA-approved endothelin receptor antagonist for treating high blood pressure that remains uncontrolled despite other antihypertensive treatments.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and severe lung disease with a life-threatening prognosis. After several positive trials, a recent study has confirmed the efficacy of a biotherapy, ...

Dr. Best is a medical director of Molecular Genetics and Genomics at ARUP and a professor of clinical pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Best received his PhD in Molecular and ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. is announcing the availability of the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) Mobile Reference Guide, the first ...