Hypertension News

Commonly used ways of positioning a patient’s arm during BP screenings may significantly overestimate BP and result in misdiagnosis of hypertension and overtreatment, an analysis suggested.

A county-level assessment of deaths from cardio-kidney-metabolic disease and social determinants of health revealed that particular determinants are more or less important in different U.S. regions, researchers reported in JAMA.

Adults with primary aldosteronism had improvements in disease severity after undergoing an adrenalectomy, according to findings published in Endocrine Practice.

A significant percentage of adults in the United States are unaware they have hypertension, according to results from a cross-sectional analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

Remote BP monitoring and collaborative telehealth visits with a pharmacist improved BP control among patients at rural nephrology clinics and reduced hospitalization, a speaker reported.

The timing of when a patient takes their blood pressure medication does not appear to matter for reducing CV event risk, according to two trials and a meta-analysis presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Discontinuation of renin-angiotensin system inhibitor therapy before major noncardiac surgery did not appear to affect postoperative outcomes vs. treatment continuation, a speaker reported.

Neighborhoods with higher socioeconomic disadvantage, particularly predominantly Black areas, had higher rates of hypertension and lower rates of BP treatment vs. less disadvantaged neighborhoods, researchers reported.

With use of a cuffless BP device, 1 week of continuous monitoring was enough to accurately identify the majority of patients’ time in target range, which may improve management of hypertension, researchers reported.