{"id":140945,"date":"2023-06-08T11:14:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=140945"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:56:09","slug":"new-artificial-intelligence-program-could-help-treat-hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2023\/06\/08\/new-artificial-intelligence-program-could-help-treat-hypertension\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artificial Intelligence Program Could Help Treat Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the nearly half of Americans with hypertension, it\u2019s a potential death sentence\u2014close to<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/high-blood-pressure\/data-research\/facts-stats\/?CDC_AAref_Val=https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bloodpressure\/facts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">700,000 deaths in 2021 were caused by high blood pressure<\/a>, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also increases the risk of stroke and chronic heart failure. But while it\u2019s relatively easy to prevent or moderate if caught early\u2014eat well, exercise more, drink less\u2014it can be tough to treat. Although physicians have a bevy of potential hypertension medications to choose from, each is littered with pros and cons, making prescribing the most effective one a challenge: beta-blockers slow the heart, but can cause asthma; ACE inhibitors relax blood vessels, but can lead to a hacking cough. Now, a new artificial intelligence program may help doctors better match the right medicines to the right patients.<\/p>\n<p>The data-driven model, codeveloped by College of Engineering professor <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/ioannis-paschalidis\/\">Ioannis Paschalidis<\/a>, <\/span>aims to give clinicians real-time hypertension treatment recommendations based on patient-specific characteristics, including demographics, vital signs, past medical history, and clinical test records.<strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>The model, described in a recent study published in<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12911-023-02137-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making<\/em><\/a>, has the potential to help reduce systolic blood pressure\u2014measured when the heart is beating rather than resting\u2014more effectively than the current standard of care. According to the researchers, the program\u2019s approach to transparency could also help improve physicians\u2019 trust in artificial intelligence\u2013generated results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/new-artificial-intelligence-program-could-help-treat-hypertension\/\">Read the full article in The Brink<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Ioannis Paschalidis demonstrates machine learning to increase efficacy in hypertension care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21681,"featured_media":140946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,257,899,907,1035,910],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164717,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140945\/revisions\/164717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}