No symptoms does not mean no risk: why routine blood pressure screenings are the need of the hour
Only 37% of those with hypertension are aware of their condition: that means the overwhelming majority of people living with ...
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Exercise and Blood Pressure; Maternal Occupation and Autism
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for ...
One Blood Marker Is Tied to Cognition and Mortality in People Who Live Past 100
(MedPage Today) -- Neurofilament light chain (NfL), a measure of neuronal injury, emerged as a key blood-based biomarker associated with ...
FDA Expands Stelara Approval; Liver Cancer Blood Test; Pharmacotherapy for MASLD
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the approval of ustekinumab (Stelara) in Crohn's disease to include the treatment of kids ...
Your Blood Pressure Spikes at Night? Here’s the Hidden Reason
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6xDu2oZh71o/hqdefault.jpg Your Blood Pressure Spikes at Night? Here’s the Hidden Reason If your blood pressure spikes at night, you’re not ...
Umbilical cord blood may hold clues for a child’s risk of developing Type 1 diabetes
We now need to study broader populations and biomarkers, as well as figure out the biology behind these signals. Identifying ...
Alzheimer’s Blood Tests: Most Patients Are Not Afraid to Know
(MedPage Today) -- Primary care patients educated about Alzheimer's disease blood-based biomarkers were generally willing to undergo tests and supported ...
Low-Income Patients Benefit From Intensive Blood Pressure Management
(MedPage Today) -- An intensive hypertension control program could be implemented effectively in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), the cluster-randomized ...
Your gums and your blood sugar: the link between oral health and diabetes
When it comes to managing diabetes, we spend a lot of time talking about diet, exercise, and medications. There isn’t ...
Blood Clots After Colonoscopy; Antibiotics and IBS Risk; Can Vitamin D Calm IBD?
(MedPage Today) -- Retrospective data showed that resuming direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) 2 days or more following an elective colonoscopy ...