Thousands of strokes and heart attacks could be prevented if patients switched blood pressure pills. Health records for five million with high blood pressure revealed the most popular pills, ACE inhibitors, were less effective than an alternative and caused more side effects. The study in The Lancet estimates that changing to thiazide diuretics would prevent… Read More »
The research found that people who take their anti-hypertensive medicine before bed had better-controlled blood pressure and consequently had a much lower risk of death or illness from heart problems when compared to people who took their medication in the morning. Compared to those who took their medicine in the morning, the people who took… Read More »
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say they are getting closer to identifying the mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and biomarkers that can aid in early diagnosis and predictions of symptom severity. A team of scientists analyzed blood gene expression data from 302 one- to four-year-old boys with and without… Read More »
She was turning blue. Literally. Drs. Otis Warren and Benjamin Blackwood wrote about the case in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. Their patient, they wrote, looked “cyanotic,” the clinical term for appearing blue. They attributed her blueness to a numbing agent the woman was using, which deadens nerve… Read More »
Fatigue Prostock-studio/Shutterstock While you may write-off your exhaustion to a busy schedule or stressful workload, constant fatigue that isn’t getting better warrants a visit to your doctor to rule out something more serious. “When you’re not able to produce healthy red blood cells [as those with blood cancers can’t] you can develop anemia,” explains Dr.… Read More »
Applying a heating pad overnight may help people with supine hypertension, a condition that causes their blood pressure to increase when they lie down including during sleep, according to preliminary results presented at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension 2019 Scientific Sessions. Supine hypertension is present in about half of people with autonomic failure, a chronic… Read More »