Hypertension

The vast majority of people in a study with long COVID had experienced multiple SARS-CoV-2 infections over the course of a 4-year period, researchers reported.

Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, particularly those on maintenance hemodialysis, may have reduced perception of smell, according to published data.

Mild and reversible AKI was tied to an increased risk for probable dementia and mild cognitive impairment in older adults with high cardiovascular risk, data show.

The FDA approved the phase 2 Explore-OSA trial set to assess the highly selective aldosterone synthase inhibitor, lorundrostat, in adults with obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension, according to a press release.

Women with high prepregnancy BMI have higher stillbirth and perinatal death risks, but this association weakens with chronic hypertension presence, becoming similar or reversing at 26 to 35 weeks’ gestation, researchers reported.

After 50 years of life, people who were born preterm had lower odds for some cardiovascular outcomes and similar odds for most other health outcomes compared with those born at term, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Exposure to high nighttime aircraft noise was tied to cardiac remodeling consistent with changes associated with increased risk for major adverse cardiac events, researchers reported.

High caregiving stress was associated with incident hypertension among a cohort of reproductive-age Black women, according to study findings published in Hypertension.

In the past year, there have been a number of practice-changing trials and approvals for the management of hypertension.