{"id":208275,"date":"2025-03-10T20:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-treatment-could-cure-one-in-20-cases-of-high-blood-pressure"},"modified":"2025-03-10T20:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:03:31","slug":"new-treatment-could-cure-one-in-20-cases-of-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-treatment-could-cure-one-in-20-cases-of-high-blood-pressure","title":{"rendered":"New treatment could cure one in 20 cases of high blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-treatment-could-cure-one-in-20-cases-of-high-blood-pressure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Half a million people in the UK with dangerously high blood pressure \u2013 a \u201csilent killer\u201d that causes tens of thousands of deaths a year \u2013 could be cured by a new treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors have developed a technique to burn away nodules that lead to a large amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/informationsupport\/heart-matters-magazine\/nutrition\/sugar-salt-and-fat\/salt-questions-answered\" rel=\"nofollow\"> salt building up in the body<\/a>, which increases the risk of a stroke or heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough could mean people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kch.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pl-927.1-saline-suppression-test.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"> primary aldosteronism<\/a> \u2013 which causes one in 20 cases of high blood pressure \u2013 no longer have to have surgery or spend their lives taking the drug <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/medicines\/spironolactone\/about-spironolactone\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"> spironolactone<\/a> to lower their risk of a stroke or heart attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half a million people in the UK with dangerously high blood pressure \u2013 a \u201csilent killer\u201d that causes tens of thousands of deaths a year \u2013 could be cured by a new treatment. Doctors have developed a technique to burn away nodules that lead to a large amount of salt building up in the body, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}