Articles tagged ‘hypertension’

The connection between weight loss and a beneficial drop in blood pressure has been quantified by a recent German population-based study,¹ presented recently at EuroPRevent 2011 in Geneva.

There is growing inequality in the proportion of people who die from stroke between different countries in Europe and central Asia, largely due to varying treatment of hypertension, according to a multi-national study published recently in the European Heart Journal.¹

Risk of death in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and type 2 diabetes can be substantially reduced by hypertension treatment with perindopril/indapamide, according to findings announced recently by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).¹

“Hypertension is the most prevalent risk factor leading to the development of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common arrhythmia” according to Dr I Grundvold, University of Oslo.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) may be preventable: contributing conditions such as hypertension and left atrial enlargement could serve as therapeutic targets to prevent development of AF.