Hypertension - high blood pressure

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a major cause of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Here is what you need to know about it.

Hypertension is diagnosed when a person's blood pressure is persistently elevated beyond levels that are considered normal.

Here is the definition of systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure. If you have hypertension, both are important.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a method of measuring your blood pressure throughout a 24 or 48-hour interval. It can be very helpful in deciding whether you really do or do not have hypertension.

In white coat hypertension, blood pressure is high in the doctor's office, but normal at other times.

Prehypertension means your blood pressure is higher than the desirable range, but not quite high enough to diagnose hypertension. Whether it warrants treatment is controversial.

Here is the approach you and your doctor should take for treating your hypertension.

Individualizing hypertension therapy with impedance cardiography

New information on the controversy regarding salt in the management of hypertension.

Maybe the doctor isn't the best one to measure blood pressure.

A disussion of felodipine for hypertension

Most experts recommend a salt restriction diet if you have hypertension.

Treating hypertension can reduce diastolic dysfunction.

Beta blockers found not useful as single drug therapy for uncomplicated high blood pressure