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Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave off the disease’s worst effects.
Clinical trials look promising, and if these drugs are approved, would change how we manage high blood pressure. But there’s much we don’t know about these injectables.
Potassium-enriched salt tastes like regular salt and you don’t need to change how you cook or season your food. You just need to switch the type of salt you buy.
This common heart condition puts you at increased risk of having a stroke, especially if you also have high blood pressure. But our new research shows what you can do to lower your risk.
What’s the relationship between high blood pressure and kidney disease, and how can they be prevented?
Targets for diabetes would improve healthy lives, reduce deaths, and be cost effective. But they should not be for managing diabetes alone; they must include treating hypertension.
Measure your blood pressure at home, check in with your GP, and keep an eye on your diet and exercise.
You are tired. Would nine more minutes really hurt? Is hitting the snooze button a good idea? Should you just get out of bed? Or is snoozing a sign of a more serious medical issue?
With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers a sampling of some unexpected items that library patrons can check out these days.
Four in five of us have a “biological” age older than our real age, which means we have at least one risk factor that is higher than the number set as “normal”.
Although hypertension can easily be detected in Africa, up to half of the population are unaware of their condition.
Top contributors
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SHARP Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Behavioural Science, University of Sydney
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Precision Medicine for Africa - A Division of the Wits Health Consortium, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Professorial Fellow, George Institute for Global Health
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Dobney Chair in Clinical Research and Winthrop Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Clinical Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Director, Nephrology and Kidney Care Services, Melbourne Health
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Executive Director, George Institute Australia; Professor of Medicine, UNSW
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Cardiologist at Westmead Hospital; Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard University
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Head, Discipline of General Practice, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow, University of Michigan
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Professor of Global Health, Institute for Applied Research, University of Birmingham