Blood Pressure

Healthy vegan or low-fat omnivorous soul food diets yield no significant differences in weight loss or lipid and blood pressure levels among African American adults, according to a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open.

Via deep learning modeling, researchers in the U.K. observed a monotonic relationship between elevated BP and CV events in patients with diabetes, and not a J-shaped relationship as observed in prior studies.

Data suggest reducing sodium limits on prepackaged foods to comply with new WHO benchmarks could prevent nearly 1,800 deaths and thousands of related diseases on a population level in Australia per year, researchers reported.

An increased risk for primary open-angle glaucoma was found in individuals with higher systolic blood and pulse pressures, while no statistically significant link was found in those with elevations in diastolic or mean arterial pressures.

Researchers observed no association between urinary sodium excretion and salt intake and BP variability in a white general population, according to an analysis of two studies.

The AMA has released 10 recommendations that physicians can share with patients to help keep them healthy in the new year.

A multicomponent intervention delivered on a web-based telehealth platform was associated with lower BP levels and improved rates of BP control compared with usual care, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Based on both clinic and ambulatory blood pressure, children with chronic kidney disease are more likely to be grouped as hypertensive when using the American Academy of Pediatrics 2017 clinical practice guidelines vs. its 2004 guidelines.

Bromocriptine, a drug previously used to treat adults with type 2 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, improved BP and central and peripheral aortic stiffness over 4 weeks in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, researchers reported.

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the most-read news in cardiology of November 2022.