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 ...

High blood pressure (hypertension) can be caused by a variety of factors, including your lifestyle, medical conditions, ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Primary hypertension in children and teens is underrecognized, yet a strong predictor of hypertension in ...

High blood pressure that has no known cause is called primary, or essential, hypertension. This is the most common type of high blood pressure. It develops slowly, and often people with primary ...

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 ...

To involve primary healthcare providers in China in the control of hypertension and to overcome their low technical capacity, a simplified, pragmatic, customized and evidence-based guideline, ‘The ...

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 ...

Testing for aldosterone levels may hold the key to treatment-resistant hypertension and many other cardiac conditions, but what is the optimal approach to regulating this hormone?

THE hypertension seen in all reported cases of primary aldosteronism caused by an adrenal adenoma has been of a benign and not rapidly progressive nature. 1 On the other hand, an increased secretion ...