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 ...

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 ...

Media coverage of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC\AHA) expansion of the definition of "hypertension" concentrated mainly on the positives at the time of the ...

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 ...

Hypertension can also raise the risk of other health problems, including kidney disease and dementia. The link between blood ...

There is another fact bearing upon treatment buried in the study. Using the old hypertension definition, 39% of patients being treated with medications were above their guideline goal. With the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The current definition of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is based on resting mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) ≥25 mmHg; however, analysis of long-term follow-up data now reveals increased ...

Washington, DC (Tuesday, June 24, 2008) — Healthy individuals with higher levels of albumin excretion, even levels considered normal, are at increased risk of developing hypertension (high blood ...

Researchers sought to determine the effect of food insecurity on cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension and hypercholesterolemia.