This procedure has been clinically proved to help reduce blood pressure in patients for whom neither medications nor lifestyle changes have been successful. This procedure has been clinically proved to help reduce blood pressure in patients for whom neither medications nor lifestyle changes have been successful.Experts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Cardiovascular Institute are offering a new treatment for patients with uncontrolled hypertension who have not had success lowering their blood pressure with the use of medications. The new treatment involves renal denervation a minimally invasive procedure that targets nerves near the kidneys that can become overactive and cause high blood pressure. Continue reading →

Low-income Black and Hispanic stroke survivors with uncontrolled high blood pressure Led by researchers at NYU Langone, the study is the first to examine differences in home blood pressure monitoring with or without nurse case management. Further, the findings, published online June 6 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), addressed controlling hypertension in low-income Black and Hispanic patients with stroke across multiple hospital systems. We found that low-income Black and Hispanic patients with stroke and significant comorbidity benefit greatly from telemedicine in general, which we know ramped up during the COVID-19 pandemic, said study lead author Olugbenga G. Continue reading →

Unaltered CNP/GC-B/cGMP signaling in pericytes from patients with PAH To compare CNP/cGMP signaling between pulmonary vascular cell types, we performed experiments with cultured human PASMCs as well as with human lung microvascular ECs and pericytes. CNP did not modulate intracellular cGMP levels of ECs, while ANP provoked a small, 2-fold increase (Fig.1a). In contrast, CNP markedly and concentration-dependently increased cGMP levels in PASMCs and, even more, in pericytes (Fig.1a). Continue reading →