Five-year-olds exposed to paternal depression are more likely to have behavioral issues in grade school, Rutgers Health researchers find

Henry Daniell of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and collaborators found that medications commonly prescribed for the treatment of hypertension have a negative impact on the same pathway they target to lower blood pressure. Daniell says that when trying to lower blood pressure “you don’t want to inhibit a key cardioprotective enzyme, ACE2, and you don't want to increase the angiotensin II pool. And here we observed both.”