CV Health: Risk Prevention, Challenges, Education

Hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea are considered independent risk factors for cardiovascular diseases as well as diabetes.

The Cut Hypertension Program operates in barbershops across the Bay Area in California. The program’s lead pharmacist joined us to discuss main themes and goals of the new initiative.

Technology, such as continuous glucose monitors, changes the way patients are treated, but more work needs to be done for racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities.

Pharmacists can help manage complications from long COVID-19, as no medications can treat it.

Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) received the maximum tolerated dose of background therapy with sotatercept or the placebo to the therapy.

The decision makes the RNAi therapeutic the only therapy approved by the FDA to treat ATTR-CM and hATTR-PN.