When fatigued individuals perceive a task as being achievable and worth doing, they increase their effort to make up for their diminished capability due to fatigue. As a result, blood pressure tends to rise and remain elevated until the task is completed or individuals stop trying because they think... Read More

MRIs on healthy Framingham offspring found that about 10 percent had experienced a silent stroke. Silent stroke — silent cerebral infarction — is a risk factor for stroke and dementia. ... Read More

Healthy individuals with higher levels of albumin excretion, even levels considered normal, are at increased risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure), according to a study appearing in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology. The study suggests that to p... Read More

Patients with hypertension who monitored their blood pressure from home and received Web-based pharmacist care showed greater improvement in blood pressure control than patients who received usual care. ... Read More

A hypertension medication called olmesartan medoxomil is effective in reversing the narrowing of the arteries that occurs in patients with high blood pressure. One of the study’s lead investigators and director of the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at Wake Forest University Baptist ... Read More