The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the US National Institutes of Health has now reversed its previous position and announced that it will promulgate an updated version of the current ...
New meta-analyses support the updated JNC 8 guideline recommendation to treat systolic blood pressure greater than 140 mmHg for diabetics with hypertension. Treatment of a baseline systolic blood ...
Application of the 2014 Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8) hypertension guidelines to the US population could result in almost 6 million fewer adults receiving antihypertensive medications than ...
Controlled BP levels keep patients alive Panel members from the Eighth Joint National Committee recommend including higher BP cutoffs for older patients and for patients with chronic kidney disease or ...
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Highly Prevalent in African Americans Despite Blood Pressure Control Multiple regression analysis showed that higher average day and nighttime SBP, younger age, and lower ...