Suzanne Oparil

TL;DR: Although the evidence available linking sodium intake and blood pressure in the general population is weak, sodium reduction has been shown to be useful in hypertensive patients, particularly salt-sensitive patients.

TL;DR: This poster presents a probabilistic procedure to assess the importance of baseline IgE levels in the decision-making process for ART and its applications in the context of ART-informed medicine.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a prespecified subgroup analysis of 15 638 women and 17 719 men in the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) to determine whether an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril) or calcium channel blocker (amlodipine) is superior to a diuretic (chlorthalidone) in reducing cardiovascular disease incidence in sex subgroups.

TL;DR: This issue of Blood Pressure proudly presents the 2018 Practice Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension, a paper developed by the ESH Writing Task Force for the management of Artership, exclusively for Blood Pressure and Journal of Hypertensions, and endorsed byThe ESH.

TL;DR: Data indicate that ANP lowers pulmonary arterial pressure in rats with hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension, mainly by a direct vasodilator effect on the pulmonary vasculature.