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ntensive therapy to decrease systolic (high quantity) blood stress to under 120 would save greater than 100,000 lives per yr in america, based on a examine led by Loyola College Chicago researcher Holly Kramer, MD, MPH. Two thirds of the lives saved can be males and two thirds can be aged 75 or older, based on the examine, which was offered on the American Coronary heart Affiliation's Council on Hypertension 2016 Scientific Classes. Present tips advocate preserving systolic blood stress under 140 mm Hg. "When the therapy objective was lowered to a most of 120 mm HG, there was an enormous discount in mortality," mentioned Dr. Kramer, the examine's first writer. "Few different medical interventions have such a big impact." Dr. Kramer is an affiliate professor within the Division of Public Well being Sciences and within the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension within the Division of Drugs of Loyola College Chicago Stritch Faculty of D...

The body's smallest organ dictates your blood pressure The size of a grain of rice, the carotid body, located between two major arteries that feed the brain with blood, has been found to control your blood pressure. A team of clinical scientists at the University of Bristol have found a new way to treat high blood pressure (hypertension). The research study, entitled "Unilateral carotid body resection in resistant hypertension: a safety and feasibility trial," was led by Professor Julian Paton at the University of Bristol, and Dr Angus Nightingale (Cardiology Consultant) at the Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol, and was published recently in the  Journal of American College of Cardiology : Basic to Translational Science . The research indicates that the carotid bodies appear to be a cause of high blood pressure, and as such now offer a new target for treatment. The clinical team have shown that removing one carotid body from some patients with hi...