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, ...

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 American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) have published new guidelines on the prevention and management of hypertension with their first major update in six years, ...

London, UK, 30 August 2024: Updated ESC Guidelines on the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension include a new elevated blood pressure category, more ambitious and intensive treatment ...

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 ...

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has released updated guidelines for the management of patients with elevated blood pressure and hypertension. In doing so, the writing committee made 57 new ...

A national guideline update encourages earlier intervention on high blood pressure, when patients are still at low cardiovascular risk. New recommendations also focus on BP management in pregnancy and ...

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 ...

Hypertension is both a symptom and complication of kidney disease. With C3G and IC-MPGN, blood pressure management is a foundational ‘shield’ that protects kidney function regardless of other ...

The World Health Organization estimates that there are at least 270 million people living with hypertension in China — a fraction of whom are being adequately treated, if at all. Part of the problem ...