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    The European Society of Hypertension is proud to present Online Education that features numerous articles from esteemed medical journals in World Hypertension News. We also offer select articles, webcasts, and podcasts from the annual scientific meeting under the Annual Meeting Highlights section. Webcasts of particular educational benefit are available under Teaching Seminars. A variety of Self Assessment Programs will be presented in the e-Learning section. Check back for these soon.

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    The FASEB Journal

    NIH-supported study finds novel pathway may open doors for new BP treatments

    30 July 2010 – – Researchers have found that increasing certain proteins in the blood vessels of mice, relaxed the vessels, lowering the animal’s blood pressure (BP). The study provides new avenues for research that may lead to new treatments for hypertension.

    The Lancet

    10 risk factors are associated with 90% of risk of stroke (INTERSTROKE study)

    26 July 2010 – The INTERSTROKE study, published in The Lancet, shows that a total of 10 risk factors (including high blood pressure [BP], smoking, and waist-to-hip ratio) are associated with 90% of the risk of stroke. The study, being presented at The World Congress of Cardiology, Beijing, is written by Martin J. O’Donnell, MD and Salim Yusuf, MD (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada), and colleagues for the INTERSTROKE investigators.

    Circulation

    Epigenetic gene silencing may hold key to fatal lung vascular disease

    23 July 2010 – A rare but fatal disease of blood vessels in the lung may be caused in part by aberrant silencing of genes rather than genetic mutation, new research reports.

    Journal of the American Medical Association

    Connection elucidated between obesity, salt sensitivity and high BP

    21 July 2010 – One way obese people become salt sensitive and hypertensive has been identified by Medical College of Georgia (USA) researchers.

    Hypertension Research

    Isolated office hypertension and CV risk factors in hypertensive T2D

    19 July 2010 – Isolated office hypertension (IOH), also known as “white-coat” hypertension, is associated with aortic stiffness and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in patients being treated for hypertension and Type 2 diabetes (T2D), suggest study findings.

    American Psychiatric Association 2010

    MSU researcher identifies links between hypertension, bipolar disorders

    16 July 2010 – Nearly half of patients hospitalized with bipolar disorder may suffer from hypertension, and the younger a person is diagnosed with the psychiatric condition the more likely they are to develop high blood pressure, according to a recent Michigan State University study.

    Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

    Masked hypertension in treated Type 2 diabetic patients link with carotid artery IMT

    12 July 2010 – Patients being treated for Type 2 diabetes (T2D) who have high carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) have increased risk for masked hypertension, suggest study results published n the journal Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.

    The Journal of Pediatrics

    Children with Type 1 diabetes and cardiometabolic risk factors

    9 July 2010 – Results from a Dutch study show that children with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) have a high prevalence of various cardiometabolic risk factors and the metabolic syndrome, researchers reports in The Journal of Pediatrics.

    Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology

    Cut the salt and ditch the drugs: controlling BP in dialysis patients

    7 July 2010 – For kidney patients trying to control their blood pressure (BP), reducing fluid build-up in the blood is more effective than using antihypertensive medications, according to an analysis appearing in the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology. The research suggests that lowering salt intake may help reduce build-up.

    Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN)

    Despite the guidelines, lower BP might be unhealthy for kidney patients

    5 July 2010 – Recent guidelines by The National Kidney Foundation Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI)1 call for lower target blood pressure (BP) levels in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). But in the absence of high-quality scientific evidence, there’s a chance this recommendation could do more harm than good, according to a special article appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).

    EULAR 2010

    Low calcium intake linked with increased risk of osteoporosis and hypertension in postmenopausal women

    2 July 2010 – Italian postmenopausal women who have a low calcium intake show a higher risk of developing both osteoporosis and hypertension than those who consume higher levels of calcium according to research presented today at EULAR 2010, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in Rome, Italy.

    UMPIRE Trial (Use of a Multidrug Pill In Reducing cardiovascular Events)

    1-a-day heart polypill to be tested in new international trial

    28 June 2010 – Researchers will be exploring whether a new, very low cost, one-a-day combined “polypill” could reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular problems across the world, in a major new international trial that launches today.

    Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

    Insulin, dyslipidemia and hypertension in Thai adults

    28 June 2010 – Insulin resistance (IR) is moderately high in the Thai population and is associated with elevated triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and hypertension, write Vitool Lohsoonthorn, MD (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand) and colleagues in the journal Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.

    Journal of the National Cancer Institute

    Angiogenesis inhibitors are safe despite hypertension risk, panel concludes

    25 June 2010 – A new class of cancer drugs can be used effectively while minimizing hypertensive side effects if patients’ blood pressure is closely monitored and controlled, a clinical panel has determined.

    Journal of the American Society of Hypertension

    Lipid profiles in patients with hypertension: results of the Extended-Release Carvedilol Lipid Trial

    23 June 2010 – Extended-release carvedilol differs to extended-release metoprolol in its effect on triglyceride levels, but has a similar impact on high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in hypertensive patients without dyslipidemia, trial findings suggest.

    Archives of Neurology

    Fluctuating BP associated with risk of cerebrovascular disease

    21 June 2010 – The risk of cerebrovascular diseases appears to be higher among individuals with fluctuating blood pressure in addition to high blood pressure (BP), according to a report in the journal Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

    Pediatrics

    Despite tests, high BP hard to recognize in children

    18 June 2010 – A Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study of 2,500 patient records suggests that medical staff fails to check a child’s blood pressure (BP) a fifth of the time, and is not recognizing what constitutes an abnormal reading in those whose blood pressure they do check.

    American Journal of Physiology – Renal Physiology.

    Anti-inflammatory drugs can help block hypertension-related kidney damage

    16 June 2010 – Anti-inflammatory drugs appear to help block the rapid kidney destruction that can occur with hypertension, Medical College of Georgia (Augusta, Georgia, USA) researchers report.

    Hypertension Research

    Increased HR variability during sleep increases CVD risk in T2 diabetics

    14 June 2010 – Increased heart rate (HR) variability during sleep, measured using 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), increases the risk for incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Type 2 (T2) diabetics, report researchers in the journal Hypertension Research

    The Lancet

    Study shows inflammatory enzyme associated with coronary heart disease to same extent as high BP and bad cholesterol

    11 June 2010 – Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) – an enzyme carried in the blood with “bad” cholesterol – is associated with coronary heart disease risk to about the same extent as high blood pressure (BP) and cholesterol, an international study led by Alexander Thompson, MD and John Danesh, MD (University of Cambridge, UK) has found.

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