A new guideline to diagnose and treat hypertension is aimed at helping primary care clinicians, including family physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists, manage the disease. The new ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has recently published revised its guidelines on hypertension. They state that the condition is the leading risk factor for stroke and a number of heart diseases, ...

Comparison between patients with and without heart failure regarding blood pressure The association between CV events and SBP is linear in patients without heart failure; however, it becomes J-shaped ...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, remains a global health concern, contributing to 19% of deaths worldwide. In an international review led by Monash University scientists and published April 8 in ...

Vivek Bhalla, MD, Stanford, calls for greater awareness and implementation of existing screening guidelines to help identify patients who may benefit from more targeted, disease-specific interventions ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AHA and ACC unveiled a companion document to their recently published hypertension guideline. The document ...

The European Society of Hypertension (ESH) has released an updated, comprehensive hypertension guideline, which has many parts that are similar to a previous 2018 document but which also expands on ...

The 2007 Annual Conference of the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) was chosen by John M. Flack, MD, MPH (Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan) as a venue to announce that new guidelines for ...

The use of the PREVENT (predicting risk of cardiovascular disease events) risk calculator, which combines measures of cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health to estimate cardiovascular disease ...

The hypertension guidelines also stress that home monitoring helps healthcare providers determine whether treatments are working, but that patients should not adjust their prescribed antihypertensive ...