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 ...

New findings show how the progression of atherosclerosis is affected by a combination of hypertension and changes to the stiffness of the artery. Research published in Science Advances discovers the ...

Murray Epstein, MD: We are in New York this morning, the day after the American Society of Hypertension meeting where Dr. Jiguang Wang, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Hypertension Institute ...

Findings reported in The American Journal of Pathology suggest dofetilide may counteract pathological changes in potassium channels associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension in humans and rats ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...