The treatment of hypertension has been one of medicine's major successes of the past half-century. The remarkable advances in therapy have provided the newfound capability for lowering blood pressure ...

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, kills more than 15 lakh people in India every year, but now India has made a strong start improving care for the life-threatening condition. India’s ...

May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month. Globally hypertension is one of the most prevalent conditions affecting ...

A neurogenic component to primary hypertension (hypertension) is now well established. Along with raised vasomotor tone and increased cardiac output, the chronic activation of the sympathetic nervous ...

Having blood pressure problems? If one medicine can't lower your blood pressure, your doctor may try combination treatment for hypertension. Studies show that many people get better control of blood ...

Systemic hypertension refers to high blood pressure in the systemic arteries that carry blood away from the heart. It happens when the force of blood against the walls of the arteries remains elevated ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a type of pulmonary hypertension. It means that you have high blood pressure in the arteries that go from your heart to your lungs. But it’s different from ...

MANILA, Philippines—Did you know that May is national hypertension awareness month in the Philippines? The month of May was declared Hypertension Awareness Month by Proclamation No. 1761 signed on May ...

Vector of a man consuming too many pills In this month’s The Waiting Room, Jim Anderson, MPAS, PA-C, explores the role of Big Pharma in developing guidelines for diagnosing common disorders. In June ...