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Nurse checking a patient's blood pressure

Why common blood pressure readings may be misleading – and how to fix them

12 Aug 2025

Researchers have found why common cuff-based blood pressure readings are inaccurate and how they might be improved, which could improve health...

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Pregnant woman

Women who experience high blood pressure during pregnancy are more likely to develop heart disease

01 Jul 2020

Women who experience high blood pressure during pregnancy are more likely to develop heart disease and heart failure in later life, according to an...

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Pulmonary hypertension-associated vasculitis

Major global study reveals new hypertension and blood pressure genes

12 Sep 2016

Thirty-one new gene regions linked with blood pressure have been identified in one of the largest genetic studies of blood pressure to date...

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11C metomidate PET CT of small Conn's tumour

New research leaves tumours with nowhere to hide

24 Sep 2015

Hidden tumours that cause potentially fatal high blood pressure but lurk undetected in the body until pregnancy have been discovered by a Cambridge...

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Conn's adenoma

New test could help thousands of patients with high blood pressure

30 Nov 2011

Scan can detect 5p-sized growth that causes hypertension.

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