Hypertension

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

Hypertension

General Information

NEWS:

Beer, Red Wine Both Boost Blood Pressure

Exercise Isn't Always Enough to Lower Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure Can Be Lethal in Overweight

Meditation Calms Blood Pressure, Too

ARTICLES:

Mission Case File: Facts about HBP

NGC - Essential hypertension. (2003)

NGC - Hypertension (2005)

NGC - Hypertension diagnosis and treatment. (2004)

NGC - Medical management of adults with hypertension. (2005)

NGC - Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.) (2003)

NGC - The fourth report on the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure in children and adolescents. (2004)

NGC - VHA/DoD clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in the primary care setting. (2004)

NICE - Hypertension (persistently high blood pressure) in adults (2004)

Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible

Report on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents

Systolic blood pressure: It’s time to take control

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A unifying pathway for essential hypertension. (Am J Hypertens. 2005)

Ambulatory blood pressure and the brain (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Association between blood pressure, white matter lesions, and atrophy of the medial temporal lobe. (Neurology. 2005)

Blood Pressure Control and Risk of Stroke. A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study. (Stroke. 2005)

Blood Pressure in Adulthood and Life Expectancy With Cardiovascular Disease in Men and Women. Life Course Analysis. (Hypertension. 2005)

Blood pressure response to chronic intake of coffee and caffeine: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. (J Hypertens. 2005)

Brain white matter hyperintensities: relative importance of vascular risk factors in nondemented elderly people. (Radiology. 2005)

[Chronic kidney disease: Classification, mechanisms of progression and strategies for renoprotection.] (Rev Med Chil. 2005)

Effect of Short-Term Supplementation of Potassium Chloride and Potassium Citrate on Blood Pressure in Hypertensives (Hypertension. 2005)

Effects of chronic quercetin treatment in experimental renovascular hypertension. (Mol Cell Biochem. 2005)

Effects of glucose and insulin on the development of oxidative stress and hypertension in animal models of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. (J Hypertens. 2005)

Effects of natural health products on blood pressure. (Ann Pharmacother. 2005)

Folic Acid improves baroreceptor sensitivity in hypertension. (J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2005)

Folic acid supplementation for 3 wk reduces pulse pressure and large artery stiffness independent of MTHFR genotype. (Am J Clin Nutr. 2005)

High blood pressure is inversely related with the presence and extent of coronary collaterals. (J Hum Hypertens. 2005)

Hypertension and cognitive function. Blood pressure regulation and cognitive function: a review of the literature. (Geriatrics. 2005)

Hypertension and HPA axis hyperactivity affect frontal lobe integrity. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005)

Hypertension - still an important cause of heart failure? (J Hum Hypertens. 2005)

[Hypothesis on the role of nutritional factors in ocular hypertension and glaucoma] (J Fr Ophtalmol. 2005)

Impact of Obesity on 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Hypertension. (Hypertension. 2005)

Inflammation may be a bridge connecting hypertension and atherosclerosis. (Med Hypotheses. 2005)

Is hypertension a prothrombotic state? (Curr Hypertens Rep. 2005)

Lowering of blood pressure leads to decreased circulating interleukin-6 in hypertensive subjects. (J Hum Hypertens. 2005)

Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Treatment in Hypertension and the Associated Renal Damage. (Am J Nephrol. 2005)

Plasma homocysteine concentration and blood pressure in healthy Iranian adults: the Tehran Homocysteine Survey (2003-2004). (J Hum Hypertens. 2005)

Prehypertension and cardiovascular morbidity (Annals of Family Medicine 2005)

Prevalences of hyperhomocysteinemia, unfavorable cholesterol profile and hypertension in European populations (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2005))

Reduction of peripheral flow reserve impairs endothelial function in conduit arteries of patients with essential hypertension. (J Hypertens. 2005)

Regression of carotid atherosclerosis by control of morning blood pressure peak in newly diagnosed hypertensive patients. (Am J Hypertens. 2005)

Short-term isometric exercise reduces systolic blood pressure in hypertensive adults: Possible role of reactive oxygen species (R1). (Int J Cardiol. 2005)

The combination of vitamin C and grape-seed polyphenols increases blood pressure: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. (J Hypertens. 2005)

The effect of a lower target blood pressure on the progression of kidney disease: long-term follow-up of the modification of diet in renal disease study. (Ann Intern Med. 2005)

The effect of acute aerobic exercise on stress related blood pressure responses: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (Biol Psychol. 2005)

The relation between pulse pressure and cardiovascular mortality in 12,763 middle-aged men from various parts of the world: a 25-year follow-up of the seven countries study. (Arch Intern Med. 2005)

Time spent moving is related to systolic blood pressure among older women. (Prev Cardiol. 2005)

Vascular risk factors and diabetic neuropathy. (N Engl J Med. 2005)

Vitamin D Intake and Risk of Incident Hypertension (Hypertension. 2005)

[Women and hypertension.] (Herz. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH - High Blood Pressure

NIH - Hypertension Tutorial

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Drug-induced hypertension

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia: Essential hypertension

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Hypertension

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Hypertension Image

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Untreated hypertension

NIH - NHLBI Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7)

Go to the top