One out of every twenty persons with hypertension has a small benign nodule as the root cause. Aldosterone, a hormone that the nodule generates, regulates the body's salt levels. A gene mutation found in some of these nodules that causes a significant, sporadic overproduction of the hormone
Doctors at the Queen Mary University of London and Barts Hospital, and Cambridge University Hospital, have led research using a new type of CT scan to light up tiny nodules in a hormone gland and cure high blood pressure by their removal. The nodules are discovered in one-in-twenty people wi
Dallas [US], June 3 (ANI): According to new research by the American Heart Association, RAAS inhibitors, a class of blood pressure-lowering medications, reduced the risk of aneurysm rupture by 18 per cent in a multi-centre study of more than 3,000 people with high blood pressure and brain an
Washington [US], December 11 (ANI): Advanced statistical analyses of demographic and clinical data from 576 COVID-19 patients, admitted to the Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale in Switzerland between March 1 and May 1 this year average age 72 years, suggest that renin-angiotensin-aldosterone sys