New research indicates that the blood pressure medications you may be taking to lower your blood pressure, have a good chance of actually raising your blood pressure!

New information from ALLHAT, a major anti-hypertension study which included over 40,000 participants, recently released information showing that inexpensive diuretics outperformed expensive calcium blockers and ACE inhibitors over the course of the study when ability to lower blood pressure was not viewed as the only endpoint, but factors such as preventing stroke, heart failure and overall cardiovascular disease.

A recent meta-analysis published in Lancet Oncology has prompted the FDA to begin a review the safety of angiotensin receptor blockers after the study found that ARBs may be associated with an increase in cancer rates.
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With more and more people being diagnosed with high blood pressure and taking anti-hypertension medications, the long term safety of drugs are becoming a popular topic.

Are current hypertension treatment guidelines too aggressive for elderly patients? One Doctor recently reviewed this question in the British Medical Journal publication Clinical Evidence.
Dr. James Wright is the Coordinating Editor of Clinical Evidence and also a member of the Cochrane Hypertension Review Group. His conclusion after carefully reviewing the results of seven high quality randomized controlled trials was to take a more conservative approach in his pharmacological treatment of patients 80 years and older, modeling his methods after those used in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET).
In his …