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 ...

Objective: To evaluate how well hypertension is managed inHMO patients and to assess opportunities for improvement. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. Patients and Methods: The study population ...

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, ...

The authors studied the impact of a pharmacist intervention on blood pressure control compared with usual care. Objectives: To evaluate the impact of the chronic medication optimization pharmacist ...

(UPDATED) Leading hypertension experts on both sides of the Atlantic say there is more in common between their two sets of guidelines than there are things that set them apart. Their article, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AHA and ACC unveiled a companion document to their recently published hypertension guideline. The document ...

The hypertension guidelines also stress that home monitoring helps healthcare providers determine whether treatments are working, but that patients should not adjust their prescribed antihypertensive ...

—A recent article reviews available treatment options for patients with COPD and hypertension, assessing appropriate choices for patients in whom any pulmonary side effects would be particularly ...