When you think of high blood pressure, lifestyle choices around nutrition or exercise may come to mind—not your hormones. But ...

You’re doing everything your doctor told you to do. Taking your pills every morning like clockwork, saying no to that extra salt on your fries, and dragging yourself to the gym when you’d rather binge ...

Roughly 16%-22% of patients with hypertension appeared to have primary aldosteronism as the likely major cause of their elevated blood pressure, in an analysis of about 1,000 Americans, which is a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An updated clinical practice guideline suggested screening all people with hypertension for primary ...

Among selected people with uncontrolled hypertension, blood pressure (BP) could be successfully reduced with a highly selective aldosterone synthase inhibitor, a phase II dose-finding trial found. In ...

Spironolactone is a medication that can reduce fluid retention. It’s often prescribed to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. It blocks the action of the hormone aldosterone, which may affect ...

A steroid hormone called aldosterone is linked to an increased risk of kidney failure in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published in the European Heart Journal [1] ...