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21 lis 2023 · This guideline covers identifying and treating primary hypertension (high blood pressure) in people aged 18 and over, including people with type 2 diabetes. It aims to reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks and strokes by helping healthcare professionals to diagnose hypertension accurately and treat it effectively.
- StatPearls
This activity reviews the etiology, presentation,...
- PMC
In this Review, we discuss estimates and trends in mean BP...
- Hypertension
The evaluation of patients with hypertension includes...
- StatPearls
20 lip 2023 · This activity reviews the etiology, presentation, evaluation, and management of essential hypertension and reviews the role of the interprofessional team in evaluating, diagnosing, and managing the condition. Objectives: Describe the criteria for normotensive, pre-hypertensive, and hypertensive blood pressure.
The 2021 WHO hypertension guideline aims to provide the most current and relevant evidencebased global public health guidance on the initiation of treatment (with pharmacological agents) for hypertension in adults. The recommendations target the general adult, non-pregnant, hypertensive population.
In this Review, we discuss estimates and trends in mean BP levels and hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control worldwide. We also examine risk factors for hypertension, strategies for hypertension control, and evidence of the financial burden of hypertension.
22 mar 2018 · The evaluation of patients with hypertension includes accurate standardized blood pressure (BP) measurement, assessment of the patients' predicted risk of atherosclerotic CVD and evidence of target-organ damage, and detection of secondary causes of hypertension and presence of comorbidities (such as CVD and kidney disease).
Abstract. Hypertensive heart disease constitutes functional and structural dysfunction and pathogenesis occurring primarily in the left ventricle, the left atrium and the coronary arteries due to chronic uncontrolled hypertension.
Essential hypertension, a rise in blood pressure of undetermined cause, includes 90% of all hypertensive cases and is a highly important public health challenge that remains, however, a major modifiable cause of morbidity and mortality.
