This content is machine translated Innovations, evidence and practical recommendations Current guideline on the primary prevention of stroke Stroke is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite significant advances in acute treatment and secondary prevention, primary prevention remains crucial to prevent the first...…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Alzheimer's and Co. Effective blood pressure therapy keeps dementia risk in check Dementia is an expression and consequence of various diseases. Due to demographic change, the prevalence is steadily increasing. A few years ago, it was possible to uncover a link between…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Hypertension Management Relevance of the diastolic value and further updates Adequate blood pressure control and treatment contributes to a reduced risk of sequelae and mortality. According to current data, excessively high diastolic values are a weaker but independent risk factor…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Hypertension Importance of aortic blood pressure for diagnostics and antihypertensive therapy According to current ESH guidelines, aortic blood pressure is an important biomarker of cardiovascular risk. A non-invasive determination is possible by means of pulse wave analysis.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Coronary heart disease (CHD) Blood pressure reduction – how deep is deep enough? Coronary artery disease correlates closely with arterial hypertension. Therefore, to prevent damage to the left ventricular myocardium or the risk of stroke, blood pressure should be lowered. Only how far?
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 13th Zurich Hypertension Day The difficult to adjust blood pressure 50% of hypertensives are not well controlled with prescribed medications, and about 40% of sufferers in Switzerland are not diagnosed at all. Thilo Burkard, MD, spoke at the Zurich Hypertension…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Infarct patients Medication follow-up in the family doctor’s office After acute treatment in the center hospital, the therapy of infarct patients is not complete. In addition to lifestyle changes, treatment of blood pressure, cholesterol, or any heart failure, antithrombotic…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Intracerebral hemorrhage Blood pressure reduction – the lower, the better? Purpose: To compare the benefit of rapid blood pressure reduction in acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICB) with standard therapy.
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 11th Hypertension Day Zurich More precise blood pressure measurement thanks to improved technology The results of the SPRINT study – lower mortality with more intensive hypertension treatment – were the focus of interest at the 11th Hypertension Day. As one speaker put it,…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Hypertension in the elderly Does lowering blood pressure provide any benefit at all, and how low should you go? With increasing age, systolic blood pressure rises continuously, whereas diastolic blood pressure rises until the sixth decade of life and then falls again. Thus, in old age, isolated systolic hypertension…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Hyperlipidemia and hypertension How to combine the available substances? At this year’s Medidays, a keynote lecture was devoted to hyperlipidemia and hypertension. In the area of the former condition, PCSK9 inhibitors, among others, are making a splash. Prof. Dr.…
