Hypertension

• Diagnosis, Imaging, Screening
• General Information
• Risk Factors
• Risk Reduction
• Treatment

Hypertension

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

NEWS:

Blood Pressures Lower if Checked at Home

Home BP Measurement More Useful Than Office Measurement

Out-of-office blood pressure in children and adolescents: disparate findings by using home or ambulatory monitoring. (Am J Hypertens)

ARTICLES:

Blood pressure: Does it vary between arms?

How Low Should Your Blood Pressure Be?

Initial Evaluation of Hypertension

NGC-Screening, early detection, and diagnosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Self monitoring of blood pressure at home.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Accuracy of computed tomographic angiography and magnetic resonance angiography for diagnosing renal artery stenosis. (Ann Intern Med)

Antihypertensive treatment based on home or office blood pressure-the THOP trial. (Blood Press Monit)

Blood pressure control by home monitoring: meta-analysis of randomised trials (BMJ)

Blood pressure measurement and the guidelines: a proposed new algorithm for the diagnosis of hypertension. (Blood Press Monit)

Current status of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. (Can J Cardiol)

Detection of masked hypertension by home blood pressure measurement: is the number of measurements an important issue? (Blood Press Monit)

Determinants of white-coat hypertension. (Blood Press Monit)

Effects of systematic errors in blood pressure measurements on the diagnosis of hypertension. (Blood Press Monit)

Evaluation of 18F-FDG Uptake and Arterial Wall Calcifications Using 18F-FDG PET/CT. (J Nucl Med)

Hippocampal atrophy, whole brain volume, and white matter lesions in older hypertensive subjects. (Neurology)

Home blood pressure measurement and its relationship with blood pressure control in a large selected hypertensive population. (J Hum Hypertens)

Hypertension follow-up every 6 months is as good as every 3 months (Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine)

[Information deficits concerning blood pressure self-measurement] (Dtsch Med Wochenschr)

Left ventricular hypertrophy and its regression in essential arterial hypertension. A tissue Doppler imaging study. (Am J Hypertens)

Maximizing the benefit of treatment in mild hypertension:three simple steps to improve diagnostic accuracy (Q J Med)

Office and out-of-office blood pressure measurement in children and adolescents. (Blood Press Monit)

Patient characteristics and factors associated with inter-arm difference of blood pressure measurements in a general population in Ohasama, Japan. (J Hypertens)

Self-measured home blood pressure in predicting ambulatory hypertension. (Am J Hypertens)

[The methods for screening pulmonary hypertension related to systemic sclerosis in France. Descriptive survey of the French Research Group on Sclerosis] (Presse Med)

When measurements are misleading: modelling the effects of blood pressure misclassification in the English population (BMJ)

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