Part of the function of the kidney is to help you regulate blood pressure.
High blood pressure—known as hypertension—can be common both before and after a kidney or heart transplant. Read the article on CareDx.com.
By Regina Schaffer
Women who reported sleep difficulties or sleeping less than 6 hours per day were more likely to develop hypertension compared with women who slept 7 to 8 hours, with shift work not affecting the association, researchers reported.
“Both sleep difficulties and hypertension are very prevalent conditions,” Shahab Haghayegh, PhD, a research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told Healio. Read the full article in Healio.
By Regina Schaffer
People with hypertension are more likely to have higher systolic BP and slightly worse BP control during winter vs. summer months, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Hypertension Scientific Sessions.
“Seasonal variation in blood pressure has a substantial effect on hypertension control, often defined as a BP of less than 140/90 mm Hg,” Robert Barrett, a software engineer with the AMA, told Healio. “Patients with hypertension are less likely to have their BP controlled during winter than summer months.” Read more in Healio.
By Regina Shaffer
As little as one alcoholic drink per day is associated with a linear increase in systolic BP, even for people without hypertension, data from a meta-analysis of international studies show.
“We found no beneficial effects in adults who drank a low level of alcohol compared to those who did not drink alcohol,” Marco Vinceti, MD, PhD, professor of epidemiology and public health at University of Modena Medical School and Reggio Emilia University in Italy, said in a press release. Read the full article in Healio.
Researchers identified the distance between a household and a supermarket as a risk factor for chronic kidney disease, hypertension and diabetes development.
Further, the correlation between supermarket access and chronic disease can be explained by individual and neighborhood-level factors. Read the full story in Healio.
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.