Hypertension is a common early finding in patients who have experienced an acute ischemic stroke. It occurs both in patients who were normotensive and in those who were receiving antihypertensive ...

Antihypertensive treatment and risk of site-specific cancer: an individual participant meta-analysis of 250,000 participants. Research presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2020 ...

In addition, researchers found an association between adherence to antihypertensive drug therapy and decreased cancer-specific mortality (HR = 0.94; 95% CI, 0.9-0.98).

By blocking angiotensin-2 receptors in patients with COVID-19, antihypertensive drugs such as losartan may be able to counteract the exacerbated vasoconstriction that occurs after viral infection.

This review considers recent evidence concerning hypertension management in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, including the effects of antihypertensive-drug classes on exacerbati ...