Vascular Medicine News

People with hypertension are more likely to have higher systolic BP and slightly worse BP control during winter vs. summer months, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Hypertension Scientific Sessions.

Additional training and technical assistance to improve self-measured BP in communities with high rates of uncontrolled hypertension successfully increased BP control from 2020 to 2022, a speaker reported.

An investigational aldosterone synthase inhibitor was associated with clinically significant reductions in automated office BP for people with uncontrolled hypertension, with the greatest effects seen in people with concomitant obesity.

Resumption of elite-level sports after recovery from COVID-19 is “safe and feasible,” according to a prospective study of Dutch athletes.

A higher weight-adjusted waist index was associated with a greater prevalence and risk for stroke, according to findings published in BMC Public Health.

Patients with a history of or active cancer had a higher rate of acute MI when presenting to the ED with chest pain, a speaker reported.

An investigational RNA interference agent targeting angiotensin demonstrated a dose-dependent, clinically significant reduction in 24-hour mean systolic BP in adults with hypertension in a phase 2 trial, according to a press release.

People with hypertension while supine had elevated risk for CVD even if they did not have hypertension while seated, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Hypertension Scientific Sessions.

After 10 years of follow-up, a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement system was linked to lower rates of valve dysfunction and deterioration compared with surgical valves in low-risk patients, researchers reported.

In a longitudinal cohort study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress, people who had greater amounts of sedentary time in childhood were more likely to have an increase in left ventricular mass as a young adult.