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Significant blood pressure reductions seen in difficult-to-treat, black patients receiving Exforge®-based therapy
Corporate news announcement processed and transmitted by Hugin ASA. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. * Study sub-group with severe high blood pressure shows largest blood pressure drop to...
Getting High Blood Pressure Under Control
Doctors have a new weapon in the war on hypertension, or high blood pressure.
Predictors of New-Onset Diabetes Identified in Patients With Hypertension
The major predictors of new-onset diabetes (NOD) in patients with hypertension were baseline fasting plasma glucose (FPG) level greater than 5 mmol/L, body mass index (BMI), and use of an atenolol regimen with or without a...
Thiazides first-choice antihypertensive even for patients with metabolic syndrome
New findings from ALLHAT fail to support the preference for calcium blockers, alpha blockers, or ACE inhibitors compared with thiazide diuretics in patients with metabolic syndrome, despite their more favorable metabolic profiles...
Diuretics Most Effective Blood Pressure Medication for People with Metabolic Syndrome
New research shows that in people with high blood pressure as part of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that increases the risk for heart disease, diuretics offer greater protection against cardiovascular disease,...