The use of the updated American Heart Association 2022 ambulatory BP monitoring guideline reclassified many adolescents from normotensive to hypertensive, researchers reported.
An analysis of the updated guidance was published in Hypertension.
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U.S. adults who reported a history of migraine or severe headache were 25% more likely to develop hypertension compared with those with no migraine history, with a higher risk for women vs. men, researchers reported. Read more in Healio.
Yoga provided extra blood pressure (BP) lowering and other benefits when added to a regular exercise routine, a small pilot trial showed.
At one exercise rehabilitation center, hypertensive patients who were randomized to an additional 15 minutes of yoga, in lieu of extra stretching during supervised training sessions, showed improvements at 3 months in terms of:
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Among U.S. adults, Black and Hispanic individuals are younger when diagnosed with hypertension compared with white individuals, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine, associate program director of the cardiovascular disease fellowship and director of research in the section of heart failure at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study of 9,627 U.S. adults, representing nearly 75 million Americans, with hypertension from the NHANES from 2011 to 2020. Read more in Healio.