Medically reviewed by Femi Aremu, PharmD Key Takeaways CBD is more likely to lower your blood pressure, especially if yours ...

When you get up out of a chair, your blood pressure instantly increases to compensate for the movement and keep you from fainting. For decades researchers thought neurons called baroreceptors in ...

The Reverse Valsalva maneuver utilizes forced inspiration against an occluded airway to generate negative intrathoracic pressure and trigger a potent vagal response: This technique serves as a viable ...

The vascular surgery team at UCSF Health recently became the first among University of California medical centers to implant a Barostim device to treat heart failure. The team implanted the device in ...

Abstract: The aortic baroreceptors are stretch-sensitive nerve endings in the vascular wall of the aortic arch that play a vital role in cardiovascular autoregulation by dynamically responding to ...

February 12, 2025—CVRx, Inc. announced new real-world evidence demonstrating that use of the company’s Barostim implant was associated with large, statistically significant reductions in health care ...

The Barostim device received FDA approval in 2019. Image credit: Shutterstock / Alphavector. Building on long-term data announced earlier this year, CVRx has reported durable improvements in heart ...

People with high blood pressure have reduced sensitivity to pain, known as blood pressure hypoalgesia. One proposed mechanism for this is altered baroreceptor sensitivity. In healthy volunteers, ...

March 18, 2024—The BeAT-HF trial—Baroreflex Activation Therapy (BAT) for Heart Failure (HF)—evaluated treatment using Barostim (CVRx, Inc.) plus guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) in patients ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded label for the Barostim neuromodulation system in patients with heart failure (HF) that incorporates longer-term, postmarketing ...

Abstract: Baroreceptors, sensors that play a role in controlling arterial blood pressure (BP), are mechanical stretch receptors located in the aortic arch and carotid sinuses. Factors affecting the ...