Children With Sickle Cell Disease, Hypertension, And Anemia At Risk For Silent Strokes



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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Key Area Identified That Could Sever Communication Between Brain And Heart In Disease



A team of neuroscientists and anaesthetists, who have been using pioneering techniques to study how the brain regulates the heart, has identified a crucial part of the nervous system whose malfunction may account for an increased risk of death from heart failure…
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Non-Invasive Test Spots Most Common Curable Cause Of High Blood Pressure





A simple non-invasive scan may be able to spot a common curable cause of high blood pressure just as well as the current method, which relies on a difficult and invasive blood test…
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