The hypertension guidelines also stress that home monitoring helps healthcare providers determine whether treatments are working, but that patients should not adjust their prescribed antihypertensive ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has recently published revised its guidelines on hypertension. They state that the condition is the leading risk factor for stroke and a number of heart diseases, ...

The authors studied the impact of a pharmacist intervention on blood pressure control compared with usual care. Objectives: To evaluate the impact of the chronic medication optimization pharmacist ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Undertreatment of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia is a persistent clinical challenge, and up to half of ...

(UPDATED) Leading hypertension experts on both sides of the Atlantic say there is more in common between their two sets of guidelines than there are things that set them apart. Their article, ...

Hypertension is one of the most common chronic conditions in the U.S., affecting nearly half of the country’s adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unfortunately, ...

The 1999 guidelines remain current in other areas. Unlike the current US hypertension guidelines (JNC 7) and European guidelines, the WHO/ISH guidelines are aimed at a global audience and are intended ...