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 ...

SaveHealth reports on 10 hypertension medications, their classifications, effectiveness, side effects, and safety in managing high blood pressure.

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

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% ...

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 ...

Medically reviewed by Jamin Brahmbhatt, MD IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is a kidney condition where antibodies (immune system ...

In patients with hypertension, starting therapy with an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) is associated with the best ...

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 ...

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) ...