Amplified by the childhood obesity epidemic, primary hypertension is now the leading type of pediatric hypertension, especially in adolescence, yet the condition is "underrecognized," the American ...

In their recent Viewpoint, Frieden and colleagues argue that mass blood pressure screening diverts resources from improving hypertension care. We present a counterargument that community-based blood ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Primary hypertension in children is a risk factor for CVD in adulthood. Clinicians must emphasize prevention ...

Risk of primary hypertension in youth may be significantly higher in poor neighborhoods. Children living in the most socioeconomically deprived communities are 60% more likely to be diagnosed with ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers compared hypertension-associated complications and the use of healthcare services at five years among hypertensive individuals managed ...

Most people living with high blood pressure have heard the same short list of causes: too much salt, too little exercise, ...

A computerized clinical decision support (CDS) tool for primary care helped lower blood pressure (BP) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and uncontrolled hypertension, a cluster-randomized ...