Archive forSeptember, 2006

For High Blood Pressure Patients, Preventing Or Reducing Enlarged …

For High Blood Pressure Patients, Preventing Or Reducing Enlarged …
Medical News Today (press release), UK - Sep 16, 2006For high-blood-pressure patients, preventing or reducing enlarged heart (left ventricular hypertrophy, LVH) reduces risk of atrial fibrillation (AF or afib), a …

Biogen Idec signs deal to develop, commercialise hypertension drug …

Biogen Idec signs deal to develop, commercialise hypertension drug …
Forbes - Sep 14, 2006… Idec said it has signed an agreement with mondoBIOTECH to develop, manufacture and commercialise the Swiss biotechnology company’s hypertension drug Aviptadil …

Pets can get high blood pressure too

Pets can get high blood pressure too
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel - Blood pressure measurements have been a standard in human medicine for many years and due to recent advances in blood pressure measurements for our pets, it may not be the first thing done, but it is becoming more common for routine, annual, pet …

China trains 20,000 medical workers to improve hypertension treatment 

China trains 20,000 medical workers to improve hypertension treatment 
A training program aimed at preventing and controlling high blood pressure has started for some 20,000 medical workers across China as the number of people diagnosed with hypertension in the country soars.

Maureen’s Medical Moment: New option to treat high blood pressure 

Maureen’s Medical Moment: New option to treat high blood pressure 
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Many women unaware they’re pre-diabetic

Many women unaware they’re pre-diabetic
Houston Chronicle, United States - 2 hours ago… The body’s compensatory mechanisms eventually fail, blood pressure rises along with levels of blood sugar and blood fat _ making cells even more resistant to …

Extra Calcium May Prevent Hypertension Problems in Pregnant Women

Extra Calcium May Prevent Hypertension Problems in Pregnant Women
Newstarget.com (press release), Taiwan - Sep 21, 2006The problems are gestational hypertension or high blood pressure associated with pregnancy and preeclampsia, a medical disorder of pregnant women …

Long work weeks linked to hypertension 

Long work weeks linked to hypertension 
Show this to your boss: A study confirms that longer work weeks are associated with high blood pressure. In a study of 24,305 employees, those who worked 40 hours a week had a 14 percent higher risk of hypertension than those who worked less.

Hypertension Diagnostics’ loss grows in Q4

Hypertension Diagnostics’ loss grows in Q4
Nashville Business Journal - Hypertension Diagnostics Inc. said Thursday that revenue dropped 30 percent and its losses widened in the fourth quarter. The company pinned the decline on customers continuing to lease some of its products rather than purchase them. The Eagan med …

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