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June 23, 2020

Assessing Cardiovascular Risk in the Face of COVID-19

It has been many years since the global healthcare system faced a challenge on the scope and scale of COVID-19, which is caused by severe acute […]
April 14, 2020

COVID-19 and Hypertension: Should You Still Be Taking Your Meds?

In view of the often confusing and conflicting conversations surrounding the use of hypertensive medication during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’d like to address those concerns.  In […]
March 13, 2020

Can Central Blood Pressure Predict Alzheimer’s and Dementia?

A recent study that reported on a comparison between central blood pressure (CBP) and brachial blood pressure (BBP) when it comes to determining cerebrovascular disease found […]
January 6, 2020

Arterial Stiffness and Alzheimer’s Disease – What’s the Link?

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most challenging and disconcerting medical conditions known to humans. It has this distinction not because it is physically painful (although […]
December 17, 2019

What is Vascular Aging?

Consider two men, both 60 years old, but one of them looks about a decade younger than the other. Why? Many factors can be involved, ranging […]
August 18, 2019

Measuring Brachial Blood Pressure vs Central Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness – What Works Best?

It’s no secret: high blood pressure is currently the most reliable and strongest modifiable risk factor known to medicine for cardiovascular disease. In fact, evidence suggests […]
June 20, 2019

Understanding Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure and the Benefits of Measuring Central Blood Pressure (cBP)

If you’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure and think you have it under control, there’s a good chance are you are wrong. In fact, according […]
June 7, 2019

What is SphygmoCor?

(Pronounced si –fig-ma-core)  SphygmoCor® is the global gold standard technology for assessing the shape of the pulse and the stiffness of the arteries at a person’s […]
May 30, 2019

How to Reduce Your Risk of Arterial Stiffness

Recently I came across several articles concerning new research on arterial stiffness. One of the latest appeared in the April issue of the American Journal of […]