Comments on: What Do Hypertension and Ulcers Have In Common?

By: Ram Chaturvedi

Ram Chaturvedi — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:14:01 +0000

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By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:19:23 +0000

Question is … did you get worse after contracting CMV?

By: promedius``

promedius`` — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:51:53 +0000

Sorry I had HBP before CMV.

By: Helena

Helena — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:13:29 +0000

I find this interesting because while I had active CMV (non HIV) infection 10 years ago my BP would spike at random times throughout the day (did my own checks at home). This is not listed in medical most textbooks as one of its “protean” manifestations. My BP was fine once the acute infection was over. I’ll be following this study with interest.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:36:37 +0000

??? this is like science fiction.
would be wild though, if it turns out to be true.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:32:21 +0000

It would be wonderful if antivirals ended up being a solution to many of our health issues. There is also research out there connecting autoimmune diseases to viral infection; my “acute lymphocytic thyroiditis” and my dear friend’s MS.

I did avoid taking anti-hypertensives by proving to my doc that under-treated thyroid and inflammation contributed to arterial stiffening; she upped the meds and the blood pressure normalized.

Whoever solves the autoimmune problem will be king of MY world!

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:40:39 +0000

I’m sure even if CMV is a cause of HTN, there are other causes too and anti-hypertensives still will have a good business.

All of our patients gets tested for CMV every Monday and almost all of them are negative (and the ones that aren’t get ganciclovir) and HTN is still a real issue for many of them.

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:29:50 +0000

Doesn’t nearly every human have CMV? That’s like saying “hypertension is associated with having fingernails” or whatever.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:12:22 +0000

The way I’m reading this, it was already known that CMV (and various other virus) infections contribute to cardiovascular disease, and this study was investigating the mechanism. I can’t even hazard a guess as to what percentage of humans with hypertension are CMV+ — is anyone ever even tested for that besides prospective platelet donors?

By: Hyper Al

Hyper Al — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:46:50 +0000

There are so many more drugs that works for mice than humans, no wonder there are so many of those little critters around.