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Hypertension affects more than one in four men and one in five women Prof. Bill McEvoy, Professor of Preventive Cardiology, NUI Galway, Consultant Cardiologist, University Hospital, Galway. Photo: Keith Weller How doctors treat some patients with hypertension could soon change, thanks to an Irish-led study. Researchers from NUI Galway, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School found no evidence that diastolic blood pressure – the bottom reading on a blood pressure test – could be harmful to patients when reduced to levels that were previously considered to be too low. Lead resea...

  Are you one of the almost one million people in Ireland with high blood pressure? Hypertension affects more than one in four men and one in five women. Now some novel research led by a professor at NUI Galway looks set to change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure. The study by researchers at NUI Galway, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School found no evidence that diastolic blood pressure – the bottom reading on a blood pressure test – can be harmful to patients when reduced to levels that were previously considered to be too low. The fear was that,...

New research could change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure New research led by a professor at NUI Galway is set to change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure - a condition that affects more than one in four men and one in five women. The study by researchers at NUI Galway, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School found no evidence that diastolic blood pressure - the bottom reading on a blood pressure test - can be harmful to patients when reduced to levels that were previously considered to be too low. Lead researcher Bill McEvoy, Profes...

Loading video... VIDEO: Video explaining the findings of the research by Professor Bill McEvoy and the research team based in Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins. view more  Credit: NUI Galway New research led by a professor at NUI Galway is set to change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure - a condition that affects more than one in four men and one in five women. The study by researchers at NUI Galway, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School found no evidence that diastolic blood pressure - the bottom reading on a blood pressure test - can be har...

Pauline O’Shea, who was diagnosed with heart failure aged 38, said: “Before my nine-year-old daughter returned to school this week, she wrote in her homework: ‘My mum has a heart condition and I’m worried I’ll give her Covid’. “This week alone, my children are in three different classrooms, with anywhere from 10 to 30 children in each. That means I’m indirectly exposed to up to 70 people - children, teens and young adults - any of whom might be carrying Covid-19.” Ms O’Shea (47), from Ardnacrusha, Co Clare, had open heart surgery in 2012 after developing spontaneous corona...