Hypertension News

Among patients with hypertension, short-term blood pressure variability correlated with the development of kidney disease outcomes, such as a decline in eGFR, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Researchers identified the distance between a household and a supermarket as a risk factor for chronic kidney disease, hypertension and diabetes development.

Differences in the prevalence of hypertension between socioeconomic groups are relatively small across low- and middle-income countries, data from cross-sectional interaction analyses show.

Hypertension was associated with increased risk for COVID-19 requiring hospitalization during the omicron surge, even in patients with full vaccination and a booster, researchers reported in Hypertension.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Various potential treatments for patients with resistant hypertension should come on the market within the next few years, a speaker said during the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention.

Among U.S. adults, Black and Hispanic individuals are younger when diagnosed with hypertension compared with white individuals, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

The cholesterol benefits of bempedoic acid plus background therapy were consistent across subgroups of patients with hypertension, metabolic syndrome and renal impairment, researchers reported.

Living kidney donors with obesity are at less of a risk for hypertension compared with non-donors with obesity, according to a presentation at the American Transplant Congress.

The expanded indication for BP-lowering treatment by the 2021 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes guideline affects more than 10% of patients with chronic kidney disease, who are at higher CVD risk than those with well-controlled BP.

BOSTON — In a review of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes recommendations, a speaker discussed the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative commentary on the updated guidelines here.