To assess whether there is any association between the use of antihypertensive medication and the development of glaucoma, researchers looked at data from more than 2.6 million people from 40 to 95 ...

The antihypertensive efficacy of the angiotensin II receptor blocker olmesartan medoxomil has been shown to compare favourably with that of other antihypertensive agents. This randomized, double-blind ...

Growing numbers of pregnant women are taking antihypertensive drugs that may harm themselves or their babies, according to a new study published in Hypertension. Brian Bateman and colleagues analyzed ...

Poststroke antihypertensive medication use did not differ in rural and urban residents, according to study findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. However, researchers ...

Taking patients off antihypertensive medications or lowering their doses didn’t have a negative impact on the functional status of long-term care residents, a study published on Jan. 3 in the Journal ...

Step therapy with antihypertensives may lead to medication cost savings but may have unintended effects on other medical care utilization and spending. Employers who had implemented step therapy were ...

Over the past decade, interest has been rising in fermented dairy foods that promote health and could potentially prevent diseases such as hypertension (high blood pressure). Functional dairy products ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is limited evidence on the risks and benefits of discontinuing antihypertensive medications in older ...

Five antihypertensive drug classes were analyzed separately and were also compared to all other treatment groups, including placebo. The use of antihypertensive medications does not appear to increase ...

A new multicenter study that recently appeared on the medRxiv* preprint server in November 2020 has found a lower or equal risk of fatal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in hypertensive patients, ...