High Blood Pressure

According to a new scientific statement published in Hypertension, high BP should be treated during pregnancy, and treatment should be individualized to each patient.

Among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, hospitalizations for hypertensive emergencies more than doubled from 1999 to 2019, according to data presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Empagliflozin was safe and effective in patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction regardless of systolic BP or N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide level, according to two new analyses of results from the EMPEROR-Reduced trial.

Lowering BP through medication reduced risk for CV events across almost all age groups, suggesting age-related BP thresholds should be removed from guidelines, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Effect of breastfeeding on child BP.

An intervention for uncontrolled hypertension in the setting of a barbershop may be a cost-effective strategy to improve systolic BP control among Black men, according to data published in Circulation.

Labeling low-risk individuals based on a high BP reading led to increased worry and disease perceptions and no changes in willingness to make lifestyle changes, researchers reported.

In women, systolic BP as low as 100 mm Hg to 109 mm Hg may be associated with CVD risk, according to a study published in Circulation.

Although elevated BP was “common” among hospitalized patients within Cleveland Clinic’s health system, “antihypertensive treatment intensification was not,” authors of a cohort study in JAMA Internal Medicine wrote.

Despite significant improvements in BP control among U.S. patients with hypertension between 1999 and 2013, there was an approximately 10% drop in BP control from 2013 to 2018, researchers reported.