Hypertension

Cardiac arrest and COVID vaccines aren’t linked in young, CDC says

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Rachel Carter

Your COVID vaccine questions: how is distrust being addressed? COVID vaccine distrust: Dr. William Schaffner, Medical Director of the National Foundation for ...

Intermittent fasting flagged as serious health risk

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Rachel Carter

Intermittent fasting, a trendy method for weight-loss and targeting inflammation, has been flagged as a serious health risk, the American Heart Association ...

Chest pain, nausea, fatigue isn’t in your head. It may be your heart

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Rachel Carter

Given that heart disease is the leading killer of women, it should be a requirement that every medical student learn what we’ve ...

Major cause of maternal mortality diagnosed too late. Here’s why.

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Rachel Carter

A leading cause of maternal mortality often goes unnoticed. By the time it’s diagnosed, it’s sometimes too late to stem the damage.  ...

Salt Substitute Reduces Risk for New Hypertension

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Rachel Carter

Replacing regular salt with a salt substitute reduced the incidence of new hypertension compared with a usual salt group, without provoking hypotension, ...

Does exercise lower blood pressure? Walking is a great start.

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Rachel Carter

When high blood pressure is a deadly diagnosis In a nation plagued by high blood pressure, Black people are more likely to ...

Iowan in cardiac arrest at restaurant saved by two UnityPoint nurses

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Rachel Carter

Sometimes, the stars have to align just perfectly for everything to work out. For an Ira man, they did just that while ...

This One Simple Diet Change Could Transform Your Blood Pressure

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Rachel Carter

New research shows that reducing dietary sodium significantly lowers blood pressure in individuals, regardless of whether they have hypertension or are on ...

Salty immune cells surrounding the brain linked to hypertension-induced dementia

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Rachel Carter

News Release Monday, December 4, 2023 NIH-funded study in mice offers possible new target for high blood pressure treatments. A study ...

ACC/AHA Issue Updated Atrial Fibrillation Guideline

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Rachel Carter

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), and the Heart Rhythm ...