The Japanese Society of Hypertension (JSH) revised the Guidelines for the Management of
Hypertension 2014 (JSH 2014), and published the JSH 2019. In the development of the JSH …

2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Report of
the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical …

Document Reviewers: Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici
(Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luıs Bronze (Portugal), John …

Background Persons with toxic gain-of-function variants in the gene encoding
apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) are at greater risk for the development of rapidly progressive …

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 …

Background In a previously reported randomized trial of standard and intensive systolic
blood-pressure control, data on some outcome events had yet to be adjudicated and post …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an increasingly prevalent condition globally and is strongly
associated with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD). Hypertension is both a cause and …

Abstract The 2017 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice
Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors is intended to assist medical …

Objective—To review the literature systematically and perform meta-analyses to address
these questions: 1) Is there evidence that self-measured blood pressure (BP) without other …

Background Recent hypertension guidelines have reversed previous recommendations for
lower blood pressure targets in high-risk patients, such as those with cardiovascular …