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 management of hypertension has historically been shaped by two competing schools of thought. The first posits that reducing blood pressure itself is the ultimate priority, with clinical benefits ...

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 ...

Providers should evaluate all patients with new-onset hypertension for evidence of end organ damage, guidelines say, but researchers have found gaps in that process. Researchers at Indiana University ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers compared blood pressure (BP) self-monitoring along with self-titration of antihypertensive medication to usual care for patients with ...

A study evaluated a cuffless monitor that uses optical sensors to record blood pressure continually and efficiently, without disruption to the patient. A study led by a Brigham investigator evaluated ...

A community-based remote patient monitoring (RPM) program was associated with significant reduction in blood pressure in Medicare patients with stage 2 hypertension, highlighting the potential ...

High blood pressure becomes more common after age 40years yet new research from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College ...