This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello, and welcome to this podcast series. I'm Dr Vallerie McLaughlin, the Kim A. Eagle Endowed Professor of Cardiovascular ...

Hypertension is a very common condition, affecting about half of all adults in the U.S. But it doesn’t always have symptoms, so about one in three people don’t know they have it. Hypertension develops ...

A research team has investigated structural changes in kidneys of patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes. The results show that high blood pressure can lead to abnormalities in the podocytes, ...

Postpartum hypertension is high blood pressure that begins after giving birth. Some people develop it due to pregnancy-related conditions like preeclampsia. These conditions affect 10% to 20% of ...

And of course, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) itself is a rare disease. Ray, talk a little bit about the difference between PH and PAH in terms of definition. Benza: That's a really great thing ...