Rutgers Health researchers have found that hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are strongly associated with fatal cardiovascular disease for up to a year after birth.
Pressure alone triggers these cells to fill with lipid droplets, morphing them into foam cells – culprits in the formation of atherosclerotic lesions, the hallmark of arterial disease
The University of Toledo have proven that engineered bacteria can lower blood pressure, a finding that opens new doors in the pursuit of harnessing our body’s own microbiome to treat hypertension.