Background: The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association
(ACC/AHA) Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High …

American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines1 promote radical changes in the
management of hypertension. First, given the change in the definition of the condition (blood …

Despite the availability of effective pharmacological treatments to aid the control of blood
pressure, the global rate of uncontrolled blood pressure remains high. As such, further …

Hypertension (HT) is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Over the past
25 years, the number of individuals with hypertension and the estimated associated deaths …

As early as the 1920s, and subsequently in the 1959 Build and Blood Pressure Study (S1. 5-
1) of almost 5 million adults insured between 1934 and 1954, a strong direct relationship …

The ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines cover virtually all aspects of the diagnosis,
evaluation, monitoring, secondary causes as well as drug and non-drug treatment of …

Summary of the Clinical Problem Hypertension is a leading risk factor for mortality and
disability. Recent estimates are that 874 million adults worldwide have an SBP of 140 mm …

This issue of JAMA, from illustrated cover to in-depth content, is dedicated to hypertension, a
worldwide problem of enormous consequence. High blood pressure affects more than 1 …

This study compares the recommendations of the most recent American College of
Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) and European Society of Cardiology …

An estimated 73 million people in the United States live with hypertension. As many as
55,000 deaths are directly attributed to hypertension each year, and it is considered an …