Blood Pressure

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death for men in Tennessee and cancer deaths continue to move further away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy People 2020 goal, according to the 2012 Tennessee Men’s Health Report Card. Read More

A newer version of an old class of blood pressure lowering drugs may offer advantages for obese patients with metabolic syndrome. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have demonstrated that dopamine produced outside the brain – in the kidneys – is important for renal function, blood pressure regulation and life span. Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a laboratory for health care reform. Increasingly, Vanderbilt researchers are applying their expertise in informatics, genomics, drug discovery, basic science and clinical medicine to the solution of critical problems in patient care. Bedside checklists and electronic “dashboards” developed at Vanderbilt, for example, enable doctors and… Read More

A non-cancerous tumor was slowly strangling a two-month-old baby. A Vanderbilt University Medical Center doctor gave the baby a very common blood pressure medicine and within a day, there were miraculous results. Barb Cramer has the story. Read More