MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hypertensive'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:53 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3056584&cid=t_131526_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F03%2Fnew-england-journal-of-medicine-2009-vol-361-no-22%2F This article provides a review of thiazide diuretics which were introduced in the late 1950s as the first effective oral antihypertensive agent with acceptable side-effects. This article focuses on the diuretics most often indicated for long-term therapy of hypertension. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Posted in Journals Tagged: Anti Hypertensive Agents, Diuretics, Hypertension (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3056584 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:47:43 +0100 3056584 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=988487&cid=t_131526_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F176817444%2F And yet another link to Alzheimer’s disease from another chronic disease process… It seems that anti-hypertensives have proven to benefit in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Such implications could aid in the ultimate cure and care of this dreadful mind altering disease. Just what anti-hypertensives made the list? …significantly benefit from the treatment with the anti-hypertensive agent Valsartan, found to pharmacologically prevent beta-amyloid production in the brain even when delivered to Alzheimer’s disease mice at doses 3-4 fold lower than the minimal equivalent dose prescribed for the treatment of hypertension in humans. Other anti-hypertension drugs with beneficial results included Propranolol HCI, Carvedilol, Losartan, Nicardipine H... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=988487 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:34:37 +0100 988487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=949713&cid=t_131526_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F169572792%2F This is a tricky one. I think that so many different outside factors could also cloud the findings in this racially based study. Is seems that if you are African American or Hispanic, you don’t want to be hypertensive in Florida, USA. Yes, there was actually a study done on this. I don’t know how it came about or if it stemmed from a wrongful treatment or malpractice case or just plain old curiosity. Over 55% of all emergent, as well as non emergent, patients that were hospital for hypertension in the state of Florida were whites. African American were in a distant second at just over 25% and Hispanic patients brought up the rear at just under 15%. Like I said above, I can personally think of many reasons that would lead to this conclusion but here is what the persons conductin... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=949713 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:21:06 +0100 949713 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=733635&cid=t_131526_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F13%2Fbeta-blocker-wont-cause-weight-gain%2F Filed under: Type 2, Drugs, Research, Daily NewsThe beta-blocker carvedilol does not cause weight gain in diabetic patients, declares a new study just out. Significance? It means the drug does away with a problematic side-effect of other (earlier) beta-blockers, which are medications prescribed to correct high blood pressure. The study has been published in the American Journal of Medicine (July 2007) and was conducted by researchers at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York.Around eleven hundred patients participated in the study, all of whom have Type 2 diabetes and also suffer from high blood pressure. Some took the new drug carvedilol, while others were given the standard metoprolol. Over the course of five months the patients on metoprolol gained an average of 1.19 kg/2.6 lb... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=733635 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 733635