Women who experience pre-eclampsia during pregnancy have more heart attacks, strokes and blood clots later in life than women without the condition, according to several studies, the New York Times reports. Pre-eclampsia occurs in about 5% of pregnancies, affecting about 300,000 women annually in the U.S.
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Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (Ranbaxy), announced that the company has received an approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Quinapril Hydrochloride & Hydrochlorothiazide (Quinapril + HCTZ) Tablets, 10mg/12.5mg, 20mg/12.5mg and 20mg/25mg. The Application for the drug was submitted by Ranbaxy, from its OHM Laboratories manufacturing facility, at New Jersey, USA.
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Yale researchers investigating the genetic causes of blood pressure variation have identified a previously undescribed syndrome associated with seizures, a lack of coordination, developmental delay and hearing loss.
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In Florida, black young adults are hospitalized for stroke at a rate three times higher than their white and Hispanic peers, a new study by University of South Florida researchers reports. The study was presented at the American Heart Association’s Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Annual Conference and appears in the online version of the international journal Neuroepidemiology.
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High blood pressure appears to be a contributing factor in the breast cancer mortality disparity between black and white women, according to a study published March 1 in the International Journal of Cancer, Reuters Health reports. For the study, Dejana Braithwaite of the
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The problem of high blood pressure has reached pandemic proportions, causing premature death through heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease in a third of the UK population. For decades, scientists have battled at length over its cause yet still cannot agree; is the kidney or the brain to blame? This month, Experimental Physiology hosts a lively debate between two groups of world-leading experts.
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A new study by US researchers found that a moderate reduction in daily salt intake could reduce deaths and rates of heart disease among Americans, and among African Americans in particular, because they are more likely to have high blood pressure and for it to be sensitive to salt. The study was the work of lead author Dr Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, an assistant professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues.
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Pregnant women suffering from asthma run a greater risk of giving birth prematurely if they suspend their asthma treatments. According to a Université de Montréal study, published in Respiratory Medicine, the probability of suffering from hypertension during pregnancy also increases for women who interrupt their asthma treatment.
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The possibility of remote monitoring for chronically ill patients will soon become a reality. Now, researchers in South Africa and Australia have devised a decentralized system to avoid medical
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InterCure Ltd., a medical
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