Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Renal artery stenosis is the narrowing of one or both blood vessels to the kidneys. The renal arteries bring blood from the heart to the kidneys to help filter ...

The formal equation for the hypertension index is ... study of 75 patients who underwent renal revascularization for renal artery stenosis over 15 years, a hypertension index greater than 120 ...

Hypertension is a silent epidemic in South Africa, claiming lives without warning. Dr Vinesh Padayachy sheds light on this ...

In patients with longstanding hypertension, functional or anatomical vasoconstriction ... Cardiovascular death is much more likely than end stage renal failure in atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis ...

Almost half of adults in America—about 108 million people—have hypertension. Hypertension, which is also known as high blood ...

In the Netherlands, about 2,000 people with carotid artery stenosis are operated on every year after they have had a stroke. Thirty years ago, large studies showed that an operation in which a ...

Hypertension, diabetes mellitus, stroke, atrial fibrillation, and smoking were consistently linked to a higher risk of carotid artery stenosis, with stroke exhibiting the strongest association.

Hypertension-related vascular dementia mortality rates have increased over the past 15 years, especially among Black and African American individuals.