A shift in the definition of high blood pressure may help identify more women who are at risk of developing life-threatening complications during pregnancy and delivery, suggests a new study from ...

Levels of hypertension in developing countries appear to be similar to those in the United States according to the new American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) definition ...

When your heart pumps blood throughout your body, the blood exerts a force against the walls of your arteries. The strength of this force — known as blood pressure — plays a critical role in your ...

San Francisco, CA - A writing group within the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) has proposed a new, broader definition of hypertension that focuses not just on blood-pressure thresholds but on ...

Putting the impact of the new hypertension guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and nine partnering organizations into an international context, ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A newly released, long-awaited guideline published by the American Heart Association, the American College of ...

Washington, DC (Tuesday, June 24, 2008) — Healthy individuals with higher levels of albumin excretion, even levels considered normal, are at increased risk of developing hypertension (high blood ...