Chemo That Can Save Kids With Cancer Can Also Damage Hearing
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Blood pressure rising at night linked to doubling risk of death in adults with diabetes
Research Highlights:
- Abnormal blood pressure patterns, known as non-dipping and reverse dipping, were linked to increased risk of death in adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, according to a new, 21-year study.
- Reverse dipping, when blood pressure levels increase during nighttime sleep, […]
What Is the Difference Between Tumor Grade and Stage? Grade vs. Stage
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High blood pressure risk higher among veterans who experienced sexual trauma while serving
Research Highlights:
- In a large study of young and middle-aged veterans, those who experienced sexual harassment or assault while serving in the military (military sexual trauma), had a 30% higher risk of hypertension than veterans who had not experienced military sexual trauma.
- The heightened […]
Older women, younger men more likely to have uncontrolled blood pressure
Research Highlights:
- More than one-third of U.S. adults taking medications to treat high blood pressure, or hypertension, continue to have uncontrolled hypertension.
- Men from ages 20 to 49 were up to 70% more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension than women of the same age.
- The […]
Is Paget’s Disease of the Breast Fatal? Survival Rate Chart
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There’s no place like home… to track blood pressure
Research Highlights:
- Adults with elevated blood pressure who had not been diagnosed with high blood pressure found that monitoring their blood pressure at home was more acceptable than going to a kiosk, clinic or using a 24-hour wearable monitoring device.
- Adults were more likely […]
