New Drugs in Pipeline for Hypertension, the Silent Global Pandemic
NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage: In medicine, there is a term called “clinical inertia,” or the case of what someone doesn’t know — or what they ignore — could kill them. Simply put, it means failing to start or intensify a therapy when appropriate, which leads to advanced or chronic disease. It is particularly appropriate with a silent killer such as hypertension, a condition that all too often goes untreated, becoming a culprit in morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular, kidney and other serious diseases. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, stats continue to trend the wrong way, showing hundreds of thousands of people dying…
