- Lexaria, a global innovator of drug delivery platforms is looking to provide a FDA registered hypertension treatment with its patented DehydraTECH technology
- The company’s efforts are encapsulated in its DehydraTECH-CBD that has been shown to lower blood pressure as well as reduce arterial stiffness
- Although hypertension is a devastating condition that can cause not only life-threatening illnesses but also death, only about 53% of Americans with the condition have it under control
- A Harvard Health article notes that the remaining portion (47%) are not able to control the disease because they are discouraged by medications’ side effects
- Lexaria’s DehydraTECH-CBD may well be the solution such individuals seek, but for now, the company is following the regulatory pathway to eventual drug approval
Hypertension causes life-threatening conditions such as stroke, heart attacks, coronary artery disease, and heart failure. But even more concerning, the condition leads to death. In 2020, the U.S. Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) reported that high blood pressure claimed more than 670,000 lives in the U.S. (https://cnw.fm/1PKhk). Globally, hypertension claims an estimated 7.5 million lives annually, according to the World Health Organization (“WHO”) (https://cnw.fm/UCJeh).
Despite these devastating consequences and statistics, only about half (53%) of Americans living with high blood pressure have it under control, a problem that a Harvard Health article attributes to, among other common reasons, the fact that many stop taking their.
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