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Joncita Todechine, a mother of four who lives on the Navajo Nation, knows all too well what can trigger asthma symptoms in her daughter Ashley. But she didn’t always. She recalls a time in 2013, living in Phoenix and attending medical assistant school, when she rushed her then-three-year-old to the Indian Medical Center. “She was really sick,”...
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NHLBI in the Press
Infants with PHACE syndrome who were administered a drug that typically treats high blood pressure yielded no serious adverse events, according to a study published in JAMA Dermatology.
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NHLBI in the Press
Chronic stress may play a key role in the development of high blood pressure in African-Americans, a new study suggests.
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NHLBI in the Press
An NHLBI-funded study found that poorer Americans are half as likely to have their blood pressure under control than their affluent countrymen, and are at higher risk of death overall and of death due to heart disease.
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NHLBI in the Press
High blood pressure and elevated cholesterol levels in young adults may lead to an increased risk of heart disease later in life, even if they manage to get these levels down later in life, according to a new study.
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NHLBI in the Press
There might be a way to get the blood pressure lowering benefits of exercise in pill form, a new study in animals suggests. Researchers showed that by increasing the body's supply of beta hydroxybutyrate, a chemical produced predominantly by the liver, it is possible to regulate high blood pressure
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NHLBI in the Press
hree in four African American men and women are likely to develop high blood pressure by the age of 55, according to an NHLBI-funded study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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NHLBI in the Press
An NHLBI-funded study showed that the addition of a nurse-led intervention for hypertension management to health insurance coverage was more effective in lowering blood pressure than the provision of health insurance alone in Ghana.
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NHLBI in the Press
African-American men successfully lowered their high blood pressure to healthy levels through a novel project that paired local barbers with pharmacists to measure and treat customers, according to a new clinical study.
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News Release
Living in racially segregated neighborhoods is associated with a rise in the blood pressure of black adults, while moving away from segregated areas is associated with a decrease —and significant enough to lead to reductions in heart attacks and strokes, a National Institutes of Health-funded study has found. The findings, reported in the May issue...