New Research Encourages People with High Blood Pressure to Face the Music
• Severe Hypertension News • May 14 08
Listening to just 30 minutes of rhythmically homogeneous music every day may significantly reduce high blood pressure, according to researchers at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2008). In the first study to examine the antihypertensive effect of music listening on ambulatory blood pressure (ABP), today??™s findings reveal that patients with mild hypertension who listened to just half an hour of classical, Celtic or raga music a day for four weeks experienced significant reductions in 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (ABP).

Hypertension is a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater) and is responsible for causing at least five million premature deaths each year worldwide.

“Listening to music is soothing and has often been associated with controlling patient-reported pain or anxiety and acutely reducing blood pressure,??? said study investigator, Prof. Pietro A. Modesti, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Dep.Critical Care Medicine, University of Florence, Italy. ???But for the first time, today??™s results clearly illustrate the impact daily music listening has on ABP. We are excited about the positive implications for both patients and physicians, who can now confidently explore music listening as a safe, effective, non-pharmacological treatment option or a complement to therapy.”    

Meditation Impacts Blood Pressure
• Severe Hypertension News • Mar 14 08
Transcendental Meditation is an effective treatment for controlling high blood pressure with the added benefit of bypassing possible side effects and hazards of anti-hypertension…    

Stress, high blood pressure tied to birthweight
• Severe Hypertension News • Feb 08 08
Pregnant women with both high stress levels and high blood pressure may be at increased risk of having an underweight baby, a study suggests.…    

Severe hypertension: ‘Silent killer’ still on the loose
• Severe Hypertension News • Jan 31 08
High blood pressure may be one of the top killers in the country, but you??™d never know it by the way we??™re behaving, say scientists attending the annual congress of the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).

???Research shows that some 73 million people in the U.S. have high blood pressure, yet many of them don??™t even know it. And among those that do, a large number are not taking the medications they need to control it,” says Dr. Christopher Granger, a cardiologist at Duke University Medical Center. ???We??™ve discovered that these patients are getting highly variable treatment. Moreover, we also found out that we aren??™t doing a very good job following up with these folks once they leave the hospital,??? he adds.

Granger and colleagues at nearly two dozen institutions around the country created a special registry to find out what happens to patients with acute, severe hypertension ??“ those with blood pressure readings above 160/110 ??“ when they come to an emergency department or critical care setting for treatment.    

Diabetes and Hypertension in Severe Obesity and Effects of Gastric Bypass-Induced Weight Loss: study
• Severe Hypertension News • Jan 22 08
Objective
To evaluate the preoperative relationships of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in severe obesity and the effects of gastric bypass (GBP)-induced weight…    

Essential Guide to Hypertension: Hypertension in Special Groups
• Severe Hypertension News • Jan 08 08
Doctors have long recognized that hypertension is particularly common in certain groups of people, such as African Americans and older adults. These and other…    

Nicardipine in severe hypertension: oral therapy following intravenous treatment
• Severe Hypertension News • Dec 22 07
Nicardipine is an investigational dihydropyridine calcium-channel blocker. In the present study, 21 patients with severe hypertension were treated with oral nicardipine, alone or in…    

Severe Hypertension in a 4-Year-Old Child
• Severe Hypertension News • Dec 18 07
A 4-year-old girl presented to an outside hospital for an elective tooth extraction secondary to dental caries. At the time of anesthesia induction on…    

Severe hypertension in pregnancy: Hydralazine or labetalol A randomized clinical trial
• Severe Hypertension News • Dec 18 07
Objective
The objective was to compare the safety and efficacy of intravenous labetalol and intravenous hydralazine for acutely lowering blood pressure in…    

Practical management of the patient who has severe, asymptomatic hypertension
• Severe Hypertension News • Dec 18 07
The essential questions for primary care providers who take care of the elderly are these: what happens to patients who have untreated, severely elevated…    

Chronic hypertension and autoregulation of blood flow
• Severe Hypertension News • Dec 18 07
The mechanism by which acute reduction of blood pressure leads to harm is related to autoregulation of blood flow. It must be remembered that…    

Hypertension terminology - where’s the evidence?
• Severe Hypertension News • Dec 18 07
Part of the problem in dealing with pertains who have severely uncontrolled hypertension pertains to standard, commonly used definitions. The definition of a hypertensive…    

The Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pres
• Severe Hypertension News • Dec 18 07
The Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure

Although multiple specialty societies and consensus panels have…    

Severe Hypertensionnext term in the Geriatric Patient -Is it an Emergency or Not?
• Severe Hypertension News • Dec 18 07
Hypertension is a medical condition commonly seen in the outpatient setting. Primary care providers should be aware that asymptomatic hypertension, despite the degree of…    

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