:: June 2009

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View all Treatment articles in our Treatment Report . The most recent articles are listed on top (not in alphabetical order). Click on the Topic on our home page and then the subtopic - Treatment Report. Stay updated on drugs and their side effects, and various other treatments, including exercise, nutrition, and supplements.

Highlighted Article

Insufficient Sleep Linked To High Blood Pressure

Clinical Guidelines

New European Guidelines on Treatment of Hypertension

New hypertension guidelines (2008)

NGC - Essential hypertension. (2003)

NGC - Essential hypertension: managing adult patients in primary care. (2004)

NGC - Hypertension (2005)

NGC - Hypertension diagnosis and treatment. (2006)

NGC - Hypertension diagnosis and treatment. (2005)

NGC - Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: pre-eclampsia, eclampsia. (2005)

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

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)

Internet Sites

Featured site

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Hypertension

NIH - Blood Pressure Medicines

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)

Related Topics - Highlighted Articles

Diet - Health

Obesity-Associated Hypertension (Hypertension. 2005) "Obesity is strongly associated with hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Several central and peripheral abnormalities that can explain the development or maintenance of high arterial pressure in obesity have been identified. These include activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the renin-angiotensinÀaldosterone system. Obesity is also associated with endothelial dysfunction and renal functional abnormalities that may play a role in the development of hypertension."

Fitness - Exercise

Daily life activity and the risk of developing hypertension in middle-aged Japanese men. (Arch Intern Med. 2005) "BACKGROUND: Although previous studies suggest that physical activity may reduce the risk of hypertension, the role of daily life activity in the development of hypertension remains unclear. Ä CONCLUSIONS: Increased daily life activity is effective for the prevention of hypertension, and this benefit applies to men at either low or high risk of hypertension."

In this newsletter:

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening
General Information
Risk Factors
Risk Reduction

	Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening
Office blood pressure and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements: high proportion of disagreement in resistant hypertension (Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2009) “The office BP is still an important tool to monitor BP control of patients with TR hypertension, whereas the monitoring of patients with WCR hypertension requires ambulatory BP.”

	General Information
Association Between Sleep and Blood Pressure in Midlife (Arch Intern Med. 2009) “Short sleep duration also predicted significantly increased odds of incident hypertension …” Dipping pattern of nocturnal blood pressure in patients with hypertension (Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy 2009)

	Risk Factors

	Risk Reduction