Uncontrolled high blood pressure is cutting into heart disease progress

Get breaking news alerts reports. The news stories Uncontrolled high blood that matter, according a study published Tuesday Journal of Medical Association. Deaths from disease overall have decreased past two decades, study found. In addition rising of deaths high blood pressure, given recent medical surgical advances treating disease. "The fact that are not seeing that into improvement death is concerning, a cardiologist Northwestern Medicine Chicago.

(Reuters Health) - Childhood cancer survivors’ risks for heart problems may be broader than what was previously recognized, researchers say. It’s been known for years that some treatments for childhood cancer increase the risk of heart failure. But in a new study of more than 43,000 children, Canadian researchers found young cancer survivors had as much as a three-fold increased risk of developing a variety of other cardiovascular problems, too, according to the report published in Circulation. The new findings suggest that survivors of childhood cancers should hypertensive heart disease with heart failure focus on improving modifiable heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, said study coauthor Dr. Paul Nathan, a professor of pediatrics and health policy, management and evaluation at the University of Toronto and a staff oncologist at The Hospital for Sick Children. There’s a chance that there will be new cancer treatments that are less toxic to the heart, Nathan said. “However, we can’t eliminate use of these (cardio-toxic) treatments completely because they are needed to cure cancer,” Nathan said in an email.

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