Hypertension and prehypertension in adolescents and young adults was associated with a higher risk of having an abnormally enlarged heart, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

A prospective cohort study of nearly 12,000 men with hypertension found that men who drank moderately had reduced risk of heart attacks.

For patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), adding inhaled iloprost to treatment with bosentan≈two different classes of drugs often used individually to treat PAH≈increases exercise capability, reduces clinical deterioration and, in some cases, improves diagnostic functional class by one stage.