The "silent killer" may finally meet a powerful new shield marking a seismic shift in cardiology —one injection that protects for six months at a time.

A new article published in the American Journal of Hypertension finds a rising trend in hospitalization for hypertensive emergency with reduction in hospital mortality during the last decade. The ...

Blood pressure spikes, or hypertensive crises, hospitalizations nearly doubled in the U.S. from 2002 to 2014, a study published Jan. 27 in the Journal of the American Heart Association found.

Timely recognition and treatment of postpartum preeclampsia is essential to improving morbidity and mortality in postpartum patients. The pathophysiology of antepartum preeclampsia can involve both ...

In the last several years, there have been numerous advancements in the field of pulmonary hypertension as a whole, but there have been few changes in the management of children with pulmonary ...

Physicians presented the case of a patient with hypertensive emergency diagnosed as ANCA-associated vasculitis. The presence of a hypertensive emergency may be a sign of ANCA-associated vasculitis. In ...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, can affect anyone, irrespective of age, gender, or ethnicity. It is a condition where the force of blood against artery walls is consistently too high, putting ...

Hypertension (elevated blood pressure) is the strongest modifiable risk factor of cardiovascular disease—the leading cause of death and disability worldwide—and a major contributor to chronic kidney ...