Drinking a soft drink may increase your risk of high blood pressure. That is what a new study shows. A diet high in high fructose corn syrup is connected to an increase risk of developing high blood pressure.

There is a major race between three drug companies to release their new weight loss drug to the market. All three new potential diet drugs are showing good results in tests. It is being reported now that these diet drugs are also showing promise to help with other health issues such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and blood-sugar control.

A study by researchers at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, has determined that high blood pressure plays a part in millions of premature deaths each year in China. It is estimated that around 2.3 million cardiovascular deaths each year in China are attributed to high blood pressure, also known as hypertension.

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that by eating whole grains you can lower your high blood pressure or reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure or hypertension. The study was only on men, but the results concurred with other studies on women.

Middle-aged men with risk factors for heart disease such as smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are taking 10 to 15 years off their lives.

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have shown the first link between a newly discovered anti-aging gene and high blood pressure. The results, which appear this month in the journal Hypertension, offer new clues on how we age and how we might live longer.

Combating high blood pressure is a global challenge. But while developed countries have enjoyed reductions in cardiovascular disease over recent decades, Latin America has been less fortunate. In fact new research published in the journal Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease shows that high blood pressure is on the increase in many Latin American countries, a situation set to worsen unless immediate action is taken.

The Telegraph reports that researchers have reviewed studies and found that blood pressure drugs reduced the risk of a heart attack and stroke even in people whose blood pressure was not raised to start with.

The UK Food Standards Agency has set new targets for salt reduction which, predictably, the food industry warns will be hard to achieve.

A high salt intake has been implicated in cardiovascular disease risk for 5000 years. But salt-sensitive Blood Pressure still remains an enigma. Now, investigators from Germany at the University of Erlangen, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Regensburg, collaborating with researchers from Finland and Austria have shed new light on the relationship between salt intake, bodily processes, and blood pressure regulation.

New York City health department is in talks with the food industry and restaurants to cut the amount of salt in the food they sell.

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