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An increase or decrease in your blood pressure during middle age can significantly impact your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association…
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Middle-Age Blood Pressure Changes Affect Lifetime Heart Disease, Stroke Risk
In a study into the genetics of blood cell formation, researchers have identified 68 regions of the genome that affect the size and number of platelets.
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Genome-Wide Study Into New Gene Functions In The Formation Of Platelets
A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Vanderbilt University and elsewhere have demonstrated that high blood pressure and anemia together put children with sickle cell disease (SCD) at serious danger for symptomless or so-called “silent” strokes, although either condition alone also signaled high risk…
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Children With Sickle Cell Disease, Hypertension, And Anemia At Risk For Silent Strokes
A tiny piece of a critical receptor that fuels the brain and without which sentient beings cannot live has been discovered by University at Buffalo scientists as a promising new drug target for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The research on the NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor is being published online Oct
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Scientists Discover New Drug Target For Alzheimer’s, Stroke
People with prehypertension, where blood pressure is at the high end of normal, have a 55% higher risk of having a stroke than people without prehypertension, according to a new study published online this week in the journal Neurology…
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Blood Pressure Slightly Above Normal Also Raises Stroke Risk
A study involving more than 200,000 people worldwide has identified 29 DNA sequence variations in locations across the human genome that influence blood pressure…
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