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) 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, ...
Comparison between patients with and without heart failure regarding blood pressure The association between CV events and SBP is linear in patients without heart failure; however, it becomes J-shaped ...
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 ...
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 ...
The use of the PREVENT (predicting risk of cardiovascular disease events) risk calculator, which combines measures of cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health to estimate cardiovascular disease ...
The European Society of Hypertension (ESH) has released an updated, comprehensive hypertension guideline, which has many parts that are similar to a previous 2018 document but which also expands on ...
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 ...
If you get a high reading at the doctor's office, it may not be definitive. Here's what to know about your risk — and testing ...
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ReCor Medical, Inc. (“ReCor”) and its parent company, Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd. (“Otsuka Medical Devices”) are pleased to see the updated and expanded ...
Your Apple Watch can now alert you if you’re showing signs of hypertension—a new feature cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug ...