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posted by janrinok on Friday May 25 2018, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-hadn't-heard-that dept.

An operation that targets the nerves connected to the kidney has been found to significantly reduce blood pressure in patients with hypertension, according to the results of a clinical trial led in the UK by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust, and supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

The results are published in The Lancet and have been presented at the EuroPCR congress in Paris.

If the findings are confirmed in more extensive clinical trials, the surgery could offer hope to patients with high blood pressure who do not respond to drugs, and are at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and heart attack.

The international clinical trial, carried out from 2017 to 2018 at St Bartholomew's Hospital in the UK by the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, tested a one-hour operation called 'renal denervation', which uses ultrasound energy to disrupt the nerves between the kidneys and the brain that carry signals for controlling blood pressure.

146 patients in the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom were randomised to receive either renal denervation or a 'sham procedure' -- the surgical equivalent of a placebo. Patients also remained off blood pressure medications for two months unless specified blood pressure levels were exceeded.

After two months, the renal denervation group experienced an 8.5 mm Hg reduction in blood pressure, which was a 6.3 mm Hg greater reduction compared with the sham group. More than 66 per cent of subjects treated with renal denervation demonstrated a 5 mm Hg or greater reduction in blood pressure, compared with 33 per cent in the sham group.

[...] The study has limitations including the short follow-up time of two months. This was done for safety reasons to minimise the duration of patients being off antihypertensive medications. Longer follow-up of this trial and additional numbers of treated patients will be necessary to provide greater assurance of safety and to exclude rare adverse events.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 25 2018, @07:24PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday May 25 2018, @07:24PM (#684160) Homepage Journal

    I think it's so interesting. I'm blessed with amazing genes, as everyone knows. And Dr. Bornstein says my blood pressure is PERFECTO. 116/70. But so many of my friends are taking the pill for blood pressure. The side effects aren't great. And it's easy to forget to take the pill. The surgery, not so easy to forget. You want to forget it, you try to forget it. And if you forget it, OK, maybe, probably, it still works.

    And so interesting that the fake surgery worked. Certain people, they went to the doctor, the doctor went through the motions, he smiled, he told them everything will be great. But he didn't do what needed to be done. He faked it. Just like the fake Presidency of Barack Obama. He smiled, he went through the motions, he told them everything will be great. But he didn't do what needed to be done. He faked it. And people thought, "oh, his skin is brown, he's on my side." He wasn't on their side, he was on the side of the elites. Let me tell you, it will be a very sad day for our Country if we pick another fake President. And it may destroy our Country!!

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