<p><span style="color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong></strong></span></span>I understand that patients with refractory...
<p>My patient is a 66-year-old man with long-standing hypertension and atherosclerotic heart disease. During a recent coronary arteriogram, the cardiologist performed renal artery screening, which...
<p><strong></strong><span class="article-text"><span>JNC 7 was published 5 years ago and has not yet been updated.<sup>1</sup> Hypertension remains a...
<p>A growing number of clinical outcome studies have shown that home and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements are better predictors of future cardiovascular events than blood pressures...
Most hypertensive crises are preventable; they usually result from inadequate management of stage 1 or stage 2 hypertension or nonadherence to therapy.
<p>This question is frequently raised by both clinicians and patients, particularly in view of the changing definitions of hypertension in the last several reports of the Joint National Committee on...
<p>In imaging studies in patients older than 55 years with suspected coronary artery disease or peripheral vascular disease, more than 80% of renal artery lesions are associated with generalized...
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<p>The term "prehypertension" was introduced in the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and...
