An Important Window of Opportunity to Optimize Maternal Health.
This narrative review highlights the substantial long-term cardiovascular risk associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and positions the postpartum period as a critical window for…
Key Updates, Historical Context, and Clinical Implications.
The 2025 AHA/ACC hypertension guideline maintains the <130/80 mmHg treatment goal but adopts a strictly risk-based approach, recommending pharmacotherapy for stage-1 hypertension once the 10-year…
consensus statement by the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on blood pressure monitoring.
The European Society of Hypertension has issued a consensus statement on wearable wristwatch cuff oscillometric blood pressure monitors. A systematic review identified only two devices (Omron…
A meta-analysis of 32 RCTs (47,332 participants) compared the blood pressure-related safety profiles of tirzepatide and semaglutide in patients with type 2 diabetes or obesity. Tirzepatide…
Intensive blood-pressure lowering reduces mortality and cardiovascular disease in clinical trials, but real-world BP measurements often differ from standardised protocols. In this retrospective…
Intensive blood-pressure lowering reduces mortality and cardiovascular disease in clinical trials, but real-world BP measurements often differ from standardised protocols. In this retrospective…
This individual-participant-data meta-analysis from the Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration (46 trials, 285,124 participants) examined blood-pressure lowering across all stages…
WISDOM-Night substudy in 1,218 patients with hypertension or heart failure (mean age 67.2 years; 53.9% men) using a wrist-type oscillometric home BP monitor (HEM9601T, Omron) to measure nighttime BP…
Double-blind randomised crossover trial in 50 adults with HFpEF and hypertension, who received in random order 4 weeks of amlodipine 5-10 mg and 4 weeks of metoprolol succinate 100-200 mg (equipotent…
WISDOM-Night substudy in 1,218 patients with hypertension or heart failure (mean age 67.2 years; 53.9% men) using a wrist-type oscillometric home BP monitor (HEM9601T, Omron) to measure nighttime BP…
Double-blind randomised crossover trial in 50 adults with HFpEF and hypertension, who received in random order 4 weeks of amlodipine 5-10 mg and 4 weeks of metoprolol succinate 100-200 mg (equipotent…
Cohort study in 2,942 Chinese adults analysing plant- versus animal-sourced nitrate intake via a validated food frequency questionnaire in relation to 5-year blood pressure changes and arterial…