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 ...

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 ...

New American Heart Association guidelines redefine hypertension, lowering target blood pressure levels. The category of ...

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 ...