Role of the RAAS in the Pathophysiology of Heart Failure ACE inhibitors have no effect on angiotensin II formed by alternate pathways. In contrast, ARBs would be expected to inhibit the biologic ...

Losartan may help stop the epileptic process in certain patients with hypertension. An observational study that analyzed medical records of 2.26 million patients with hypertension found a roughly 30% ...

Older patients with hypertension are often inadequately treated due to misconceptions regarding reasonable goal blood pressures or concerns about treatment side effects. Adequately treating ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with albuminuric chronic kidney disease without diabetes can experience a significantly increased ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A small but statistically significant protective effect of treated hypertension was observed in patients with ...

A class of drugs already on the market to lower blood pressure appears to reduce adults' risk of developing epilepsy, Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues have discovered. The finding ...

LOS ANGELES -- Use of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) was linked to a lower risk of epilepsy after an acute ischemic stroke, according to an observational study. Among hypertensive patients, ARB ...

In a recent study published in the BMJ, researchers conducted a phase three, multicenter, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of using angiotensin receptor blockers that disrupt the ...

Treatment with an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB) is associated with decreased left ventricular (LV) mass but not a decrease in cardiovascular event risk in hemodialysis (HD) ...