Boston, MA - A new analysis of participants in the Framingham Offspring study has shown that aldosterone levels at the high end of normal appear to predispose people to hypertension [1]. Reporting ...

A speedy new scan could improve how millions of people with high blood pressure are treated, suggests a new study led by UCL ...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) incidence continues to rise among African Americans (AAs). However, it has been observed to plateau among non-Hispanic whites (NHWs). Moreover, T2D-associated mortality and ...

Current treatment options for primary aldosteronism are limited to surgery or mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists when surgery isn't an option. In a phase IIa trial, baxdrostat resolved or reduced ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), treatment with losartan does not lead to significant reductions in aldosterone, but the treatment is tied to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dysregulated aldosterone production, sometimes driven by obesity, can cause hypertension. Targeted therapies ...

Aldosterone is a hormone that causes salt retention, which raises blood pressure. Some people have abnormally high aldosterone levels, but it's difficult to accurately assess aldosterone levels ...

An international team of researchers led by Professor Morris Brown FRS at Queen Mary University of London found that Baxdrostat, a drug belonging to a new class of aldosterone synthase inhibitors, led ...

As the cells differentiated, they expressed even higher levels of genes involved in aldosterone synthesis and became increasingly active. "The identification of two distinct cell fates in APAs ...