Hypertension News

A published study suggests increasing access to health care could help improve blood pressure control for Hispanic patients — a population found to have low control rates — thereby reducing the risk for subsequent development or progression of chronic kidney disease.

Group-based care for the management of chronic kidney disease may be a promising alternative to usual nephrology care alone in adult patients, according to findings in a recently published study.

Several American and European cardiology societies issued statements to dispel misinformation circulating about an association between treatment with renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system antagonists such as ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers and increased risk for COVID-19 and increased severity of the disease for those who have contracted COVID-19.

Patients undergoing dialysis experienced significant BP reduction when exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation, regardless of environmental temperature. The decrease in BP was greater in the presence of ultraviolet B radiation compared with ultraviolet A, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Researchers of a published article found that, for African Americans who had both CKD and hypertension, greater urinary sodium excretion was associated with higher blood pressure and larger left ventricular mass.

Researchers of a recently published study found kidney donors had a greater risk for hypertension than non-donors. In addition, those who developed hypertension experienced a plateau in the usual post-donation eGFR increase.

PHILADELPHIA — Concomitant use of the potassium binder patiromer enabled more patients with resistant hypertension and advanced chronic kidney disease to continue treatment with spironolactone, with less hyperkalemia, according to new data from the AMBER trial presented at the Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Meeting.

Women who had no major comorbidities before their first pregnancy but who developed preeclampsia had a five-fold increased risk for end-stage kidney disease, according to a recently published study.

A recently published study shows a history of hypertension and smoking increases the risk of the formation of brain aneurysms in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

An intervention that decreased dietary sodium intake lowered mean urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio and reduced the risk of albuminuria, according to a published study.