Hypertensive crises encompass a spectrum of clinical situations that have in common elevated blood pressure (BP) and progressive or impending target organ damage.
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<p>The term "prehypertension" was introduced in the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and...
<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...
<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...
Most hypertensive crises are preventable; they usually result from inadequate management of stage 1 or stage 2 hypertension or nonadherence to therapy.
<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...
<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...
