Healthy people with high blood pressure who excrete a slight excess of protein in the urine raise their risk of developing kidney and heart complications. According to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN), more attention should focus on the potential health effects of urinary protein excretion in individuals with high blood ...

ATLANTA, April 29 (UPI) -- Forty-five percent of U.S. adults have hypertension, hypercholesterolemia -- high blood cholesterol and triglycerides -- or diabetes, health officials said.

Chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a serious health risk factor that afflicts more than 25% of all adults worldwide, but the molecular basis of the disease remains poorly understood.

Chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a serious health risk factor that afflicts more than 25% of all adults worldwide, but the molecular basis of the disease remains poorly understood. In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have sequenced the genome of the spontaneously hypertensive rat, building a rich catalog of genetic variants that will help ...

The researchers used paired-end Illumina sequencing to tackle the genome of a so-called spontaneously hypertensive rat strain using genomic DNA isolated from two female SHR rats.