hypertension

Albuminuria and Mental Illness Risk: Results From National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005–2018 and Mendelian Randomization Analyses Yangyang Wang, Sen Li [Line breaks added] Background Recent evidence suggests a link between albuminuria and mental illness. However, whether this...

Blood pressure reduction and all-cause dementia in people with uncontrolled hypertension: an open-label, blinded-endpoint, cluster-randomized trial Jiang He, Chuansheng Zhao, Shanshan Zhong, Nanxiang Ouyang, Guozhe Sun, Lixia Qiao, Ruihai Yang, Chunxia Zhao, Huayan Liu, Weiyu Teng, Xu Liu...

Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on blood vessels and blood pressure – LOCHINVAR Lip, Stefanie; Tran, Tran Q.B.; Hanna, Rebecca; Nichol, Sarah; Guzik, Tomasz J.; Delles, Christian; McClure, John; McCallum, Linsay; Touyz, Rhian M.; Berry, Colin; Padmanabhan, Sandosh OBJECTIVE The...

Common drug taken by millions may banish ADHD symptoms, study suggests (side effects include fatigue/drowsiness, and gingival hyperplasia)

Seasonal variation in the associations between self-reported long-COVID symptoms and IL-6 signalling-related factors (particularly the rs2228145 variant of the IL-6R gene): A clinical study. Katie Rees, Rebecca Aicheler, Lee Butcher, Alan Dodd, John Geen, Ceri Lynch, Isabel Massey, Keith...

Myeloid-Specific JAK2 Contributes to Inflammation and Salt Sensitivity of Blood Pressure Mohammad Saleem; Luul A. Aden; Ashley L. Mutchler; Chitra Basu; Lale A. Ertuglu; Quanhu Sheng; Niki Penner; Anna R. Hemnes; Jennifer H. Park; Jeanne A. Ishimwe; Cheryl L. Laffer; Fernando Elijovich...

Abstract Vitamin D (vitD) deficiency is frequently observed in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and, in these patients, low levels of vitD correlate with worse prognosis. The aim of this study was to examine the expression and the antiproliferative role of vitD receptor (VDR)...

Editorial in Hypertension by Melanie Dani and Artur Fedorowski https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.23716 Full article is paywalled

COVID-19 Recovery and Cardiovascular Health: The Interplay Between Fetuin-A and Blood Pressure Montather F. Ramadan; Iqbal J. Al-Assadi ; Foued B. Hadj Slama; Montather F. Ramadan; Iqbal J. Al-Assadi ; Foued B. Hadj Slama INTRODUCTION COVID-19 has been shown to impair cardiovascular function...

Immune cells play a bigger role in high blood pressure than previously thought, opening doors for new treatments (msn.com)

Experts issue health warning to those who take paracetamol regularly (msn.com)

Abstract The genetic and genomic basis of sex differences in blood pressure (BP) traits remain unstudied at scale. Here, we conducted sex-stratified and combined-sex genome-wide association studies of BP traits using the UK Biobank resource, identifying 1,346 previously reported and 29 new BP...

Metabolomic Signatures of Sedentary Behavior and Cardiometabolic Traits in US Hispanics/Latinos: Results from HCHS/SOL Moon, Jee-Young;Chai, Jin Choul;Yu, Bing;Song, Rebecca J.;Chen, Guo-Chong;Graff, Mariaelisa;Daviglus, Martha L.;Chan, Queenie;Thyagarajan, Bharat;Castaneda, Sheila F.;Grove...

Increased blood pressure after nonsevere COVID-19 Schmidt-Lauber, Christian;Alba Schmidt, Elisa;Hänzelmann, Sonja;Petersen, Elina L.;Behrendt, Christian-Alexander;Twerenbold, Raphael;Blankenberg, Stefan;Huber, Tobias B.;Wenzel, Ulrich O. Background: Various sequelae have been described after...

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Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial COVID-19 illness Valentina O. Puntmann, Simon Martin, Anastasia Shchendrygina, Jedrzej Hoffmann, Mame Madjiguène Ka, Eleni Giokoglu, Byambasuren Vanchin, Niels Holm, Argyro Karyou, Gerald S. Laux, Christophe Arendt, Philipp De Leuw...

Salt from the autonomic perspective, 2022, William P Cheshire - editorial https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566070222000297?dgcid=author#bb0005

We also have a Members Only thread on this topic: Measuring blood pressure Any recommendations or tips for choosing and using a blood pressure monitor for home use? Manual or automatic? Upper arm or wrist? Brand? Reasonable price range? Best technique? Limitations or issues? etc

This blog post is not new - it was published on 2nd April 2012 - but I remember reading it for the first time and being really quite startled by it. It is referenced. The author discusses lowering moderately raised blood pressure and what effects this has on mortality. He has no quibble with...

Cardiovascular conditions in persons with multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica and transverse myelitis (2018) Saroufim et al Abstract: https://www.msard-journal.com/article/S2211-0348(18)30220-7/abstract Summary article: Hypertension More Common in MS Patients Than General Public, Study...