United States - About Hypertension

People who took blood pressure medicine during a 1980s clinical trial showed longer life expectancy two decades later than people who took a placebo, a US study said on Tuesday.The randomized trial included 4,736 patients aged 60 and over who had high ...

ZURICH, Dec 20 - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said it was ending a study of a drug to treat high blood pressure after an independent body said it could increase risk to patients with a high risk of heart or kidney problems.Novartis said ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Reducing salt in the diets of the general population may not have an overall positive health impact, according to a review of more than 160 scientific studies published Wednesday.In an analysis that fuels a row over the health effects ...

LONDON (Reuters) - In Britain it started with Sid, the "giant slug with a message", who slicked his way onto television screens back in 2004 as part of a government health campaign to warn people about the dangers of consuming too much ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials found on Thursday that a class of widely-used blood pressure drugs does not increase the risk of cancer.Last year, a published study reported a small increase in the cancer risk for patients taking medicines called angiotensin ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly one in five young U.S. adults may have high blood pressure, researchers said on Wednesday in a study suggesting the problem of hypertension is more widespread than previously thought.Hypertension is easy to prevent and inexpensive to treat through ...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - An experimental pacemaker-like device that delivers jolts of electricity to the neck arteries reduced blood pressure in people for whom drugs did not work - although not as much as its developers had hoped.Results from a 265-patient study ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co said on Wednesday it submitted a new drug application in the United States for a hypertension drug.A U.S. subsidiary of Takeda, Japan's largest drugmaker, submitted the application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after ...

CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) - More than half a billion people, or one in 10 adults worldwide, are obese -- more than double the number in 1980 -- as the obesity epidemic spills over from wealthy into poorer nations, researchers said on Thursday.And while ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors in Taiwan have found that people who take a common type of blood pressure drug appear less likely to develop cancer than patients not taking the medication.Their report adds to a conflicting array of studies on ...

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Topic: United States

Blood pressure meds extend long-term life expectancy

Novartis ends study of drug in high risk patients

New review questions benefit of cutting down on salt

Special Report: A pinch of doubt over salt

U.S. says no cancer risk from blood pressure drugs

One in five young adults may have high blood pressure

Pacemaker-like device helps reduce blood pressure

Takeda seeks U.S. approval of hypertension drug

Obesity epidemic risks heart disease "tsunami"

Blood pressure meds tied to lower cancer risk

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