Highlights: Blood pressure can be effectively controlled by a healthcare intervention in an informal non-clinical setting by at the local barbershop in African...
Highlights: Blood sample can reveal information about a person’s lifestyle. This can be done by identification of the levels of about 160 different proteins in the blood. Pro...
Highlights: More than 1 in 4 adults are affected with high blood pressure and this increases the risk of heart attack and stroke There is a correlation between high blood pressure and h...
Highlights People who show signs of retinal blood vessel damage at age 60 could be more likely to develop thinking and memory problems. People who had moderate to severe retinopath...
Highlights: Wine consumption along with the Mediterranean diet reduced the amount of plaque deposit in diabetic patients. Plaque deposit in arteries can lead to various dise...
Highlights People who follow diets similar to that of a DASH diet are at a lower risk of depression. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet recommends fat-fre...
Highlights: A newly discovered gene helps grow blood vessels when it senses inadequate blood flow to tissues. This gene is called STEEL (spliced-transcript endothelial-enriched ln...
Highlights: In cardiac arrests, the heart stops beating abruptly, causing a sudden loss of blood flow to the rest of the body. CPR or chest compressions must be administered imme...
Highlights: Gene editing may be a new treatment for sickle cell disease. It has been used successfully to repair 20 to 40 percent of cells in sickle cell patients. Gene editing...
Highlights Methyldopa, which is commonly used to control high blood pressure may also prevent type 1 diabetes development. Sixty percent of people at risk of getting type 1 diabe...
Highlights IIT Madras has developed the algorithm for the first health monitoring device. The device, ‘VinCense’ can help measure vitals in a non-invasive manner. Pulse r...
Highlights A handful of cashew nuts a day could help reduce blood pressure and improve the level of ’good cholesterol’. Those who included 30gms of nuts, found blood pressure l...
Highlights: Women suffering from preeclampsia during pregnancy are more likely than women with normal blood pressure to develop hypertension after pregnancy Preeclampsia is ...
Highlights: Enhancing plasticity in the spinal cord during chronic stroke may improve recovery from impairment of the nerves. It also has the potential to reduce permanent disabil...
Highlights: Mechanisms behind the accumulation of calcium in the blood vessels have been identified. Vascular calcification is the accumulation of calcium in the vascular system -...
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