Data show that treatment with a single-pill combination of telmisartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker, (ARB) and amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker (CCB) results in significant reductions in blood pressure (BP) in patients with severe hypertension.

STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Data show that treatment with a single-pill combination of telmisartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker, (ARB) and amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker (CCB) results in significant reductions in blood pressure (BP) in patients with severe hypertension.1 The data, which was presented recently at 20th Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) in ...

Attention, all you chocoholics out there. When Australian doctors prescribed a bar of dark chocolate daily to people with high blood pressure, a mutiny broke out. Half said eating that much candy was hard. One in five groused that chocolate just wasn't an acceptable hypertension treatment. Shocking, huh?

VALLES CALDERA - The nation's highest elevation beef cattle research facility managed by New Mexico State University at the Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico is determining if there are DNA markers that will identify if cattle are genetically predisposed to develop hypertension while at high elevations.

VALLES CALDERA - The nation's highest elevation beef cattle research facility managed by New Mexico State University at the Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico is determining if there are DNA markers that will identify if cattle are genetically predisposed to develop hypertension while at high elevations.