Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Measuring hypertension as a threshold of mercury is far too arbitrary, and experts want to move the definition ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A newly released, long-awaited guideline published by the American Heart Association, the American College of ...

Levels of hypertension in developing countries appear to be similar to those in the United States according to the new American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) definition ...

Lowering systolic blood pressure is linked to a similar reduction in the risk for major cardiovascular events in people with or without isolated diastolic hypertension, a study finds.

The latest US hypertension guideline caused controversy when it moved the bar lower for defining stage 1 hypertension—to a systolic BP of 130 to 139 mm Hg or a diastolic BP of 80 to 89 mm Hg, but a ...

The threshold for diagnosing hypertension in adults has been lowered from 140/80 mmHg to 130/80 mmHg It is very necessary to take out-of-office blood pressure to identify patients whose measurements ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Resistant hypertension as defined by the European Society of Hypertension and American Heart Association is a blood pressure that remains uncontrolled despite concomitant intake of at least three ...

Secondary hypertension is high blood pressure caused by an underlying health problem, such as kidney disease or hormone imbalances. Unlike primary hypertension, which has no apparent cause, secondary ...