A large body of evidence has emerged in the past decade supporting a role for the gut
microbiome in the regulation of blood pressure. The field has moved from association to …

Dr Irvine Page proposed the Mosaic Theory of Hypertension in the 1940s advocating that
hypertension is the result of many factors that interact to raise blood pressure and cause end …

Hypertension affects 30% of adults and is the leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke.
Traditionally, hypertension has been regarded as a disorder of two systems that are involved …

Elevated cardiovascular risk including stroke, heart failure, and heart attack is present even
after normalization of blood pressure in patients with hypertension. Underlying immune cell …

Intake of salt is a biological imperative, inextricably woven into physiological systems,
human societies and global culture. However, excessive salt intake is associated with high …

High blood pressure is present in more than one billion adults worldwide and is the most
important modifiable risk factor of death resulting from cardiovascular disease. While many …

Hypertension is associated with immune cells activation and their migration into the kidney,
vasculature, heart and brain. These inflammatory mechanisms are critical for blood pressure …

The teleology of sex differences has been argued since at least as early as Aristotle's
controversial Generation of Animals more than 300 years BC, which reflects the sex bias of …

A Western lifestyle with high salt consumption can lead to hypertension and cardiovascular
disease. High salt may additionally drive autoimmunity by inducing T helper 17 (TH17) cells …

Aprominent pathology textbook used in the United States includes an image illustrating the
renal histopathology caused by malignant hypertension. The legend describes striking …