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 ...

San Francisco, CA - A writing group within the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) has proposed a new, broader definition of hypertension that focuses not just on blood-pressure thresholds but on ...

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 ...

When your heart pumps blood throughout your body, the blood exerts a force against the walls of your arteries. The strength of this force — known as blood pressure — plays a critical role in your ...

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 ...

Nearly 50% of Americans have hypertension, a condition caused by high blood pressure. It is the top risk factor for heart disease and stroke, and increases the risk of dementia and cognitive decline.

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 prevalence of malignant hypertension has clearly fallen with the advent of anti-hypertensive medication but has remained stable over the past 30–40 years in spite of progress in diagnosis and ...

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 ...

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 ...