Roll-out of scheme that monitors patients for 24 hours could cut hypertension rates and save the NHS £10m a year More than a quarter of patients may have been misdiagnosed for high blood pressure, a finding that will see the way doctors identify hypertension changed for the first time in more than a century. Guidelines published on Wednesday by the National Institute for Health and Clinical ...

DOHA: Patients with hypertension and diabetes need to be more vigilant about their condition and practice more of sport activities, according to doctors.

An estimated 75 million Americans have hypertension, or high blood pressure, and 50 million take antihypertensive drugs. But in as many as 20 percent of cases, the drugs don't bring the blood pressure under control, and most doctors randomly add drug after drug in an expensive, prolonged and often unsuccessful guessing game to see what works. A new review article in the February Journal of ...

MONDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors administering deep brain stimulation to control a patient's severe pain report that they discovered the treatment consistently lowered the man's hard-to-control high blood pressure.

Research conducted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation has discovered a protein that could serve as an early warning against pulmonary hypertension. The protein, called PIM-1, can be used as a marker for the onset of the ailment doctors told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Societ