The average participant started with a blood pressure of about 154/100 mmHg, and the researchers looked mainly at effects on systolic blood pressure. They found that taking one medication at a ...
A first-of-its-kind Blood Pressure Treatment Efficacy Calculator built on data from nearly 500 randomized clinical trials in over 100,000 people allows doctors to see how much different medications ...
For example, St. John’s wort can interfere with how medicines are metabolized in the liver, while ginseng and ephedra may ...
Shuchi Patel, MD: Good afternoon, Dr. Ruth Williams. Thank you so much for taking the time to have a discussion with us regarding a topic that is of emerging interest. Today we're going to talk about ...
Cutting out a teaspoon of salt from a diet everyday can lower blood pressure as much as most hypertension medications, a study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...
A common refrain in the doctor’s office is to eat less salt to improve your blood pressure. But that advice might be doing more for our cardiovascular health than previously thought. Cutting about one ...
Records from nearly 30,000 nursing home residents indicate that blood pressure medications more than double the risk of life-threatening bone fractures, according to Rutgers Health research. The ...