High Blood Pressure

• Diagnosis/Symptoms
  • Arterial Catheterization(American Thoracic Society) - Requires Flash Player
  • High Blood Pressure Detection(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Treatment
  • Blood Pressure-Lowering Drugs(American Heart Association)
  • Choosing Blood Pressure Medications(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • Comparing Two Kinds of Blood Pressure Pills: ACEIs and ARBs(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) - Links to PDF
  • Diuretics(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • Possible Side Effects of Drugs That Lower Blood Pressure(American Heart Association)
  • Treating High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease - The Calcium Channel Blockers(Consumers Union of U.S.)

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  • Treating High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease — The Beta-Blockers(Consumers Union of U.S.)

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  • Treating High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease: The ACE Inhibitors(Consumers Union of U.S.)

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• Prevention/Screening
  • Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Links to PDF

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  • Screening for High Blood Pressure: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation(American College of Physicians)
• Nutrition
  • DASH Diet: Shopping and Cooking Tips for Healthy Eating(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • High Blood Pressure and Nutrition(Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
  • Make Healthy Food Choices(American Heart Association)
  • Read the Food Label for Sodium!(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
  • Your Guide To Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Large PDF file
• Disease Management
  • Blood Pressure Monitoring at Home(American Academy of Family Physicians)

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  • High Blood Pressure and Exercise: Why Activity Is Key(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • High Blood Pressure: Get the Most Out of Home Monitoring(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • High Blood Pressure: Using an Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor(American Academy of Family Physicians)

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  • Move to Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Links to PDF
  • Ten Ways to Control Your High Blood Pressure(American Heart Association)
  • Tips to Help You Remember to Take Your High Blood Pressure Medicine(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Specific Conditions
  • Hypertensive Crisis: What Are the Symptoms?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • Secondary High Blood Pressure: When Another Condition Causes Hypertension(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • Systolic High Blood Pressure(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Related Issues
  • Cold and Flu Medication for People with High Blood Pressure(American Heart Association)
  • High Blood Pressure and Diabetes(American Diabetes Association) - Links to PDF

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  • High Blood Pressure and Heart Attack(Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
  • High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

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  • High Blood Pressure and Sex: Overcome the Challenges(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • High Blood Pressure Dangers: Hypertension's Effects on the Body(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • High Blood Pressure Increases Your Risk for Stroke(American Heart Association)
  • High Blood Pressure: Are You at Risk?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • Medications and Supplements That Can Raise Your Blood Pressure(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • Prehypertension(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • Questions to Ask Your Doctor If You Have High Blood Pressure(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
  • Stress and High Blood Pressure: What's the Connection?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Pictures & Photographs
  • Effect of High Blood Pressure on Your Body(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Health Check Tools
  • High Blood Pressure Quiz: Are You at Risk?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • High Blood Pressure Quiz: Is Your Hypertension under Control?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • Test Your High Blood Pressure IQ with This Quiz(American Heart Association)
• Tutorials
  • High Blood Pressure(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
  • Hypertension(Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player

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• Clinical Trials
  • ClinicalTrials.gov: Hypertension(National Institutes of Health)
• Research
  • ALLHAT: New Findings about Drugs to Lower High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
  • Cardiac and Systemic Hemodynamic Characteristics of Hypertension and Prehypertension in Adolescents and Young Adults -- The Strong Heart Study(American Heart Association)
  • Controlling Blood Pressure: Hypertension among United States Adults 1999-2004(American Heart Association)
  • Effects of Blood Pressure Levels on Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis(American Heart Association)
  • Effects of Different Doses of Physical Activity on Cardiorespiratory Fitness among Sedentary, Overweight or Obese Postmenopausal Women with Elevated Blood Pressure(American Heart Association)
  • Food Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake of Individuals and Their Blood Pressure(American Heart Association)
  • Growth Problems Before Birth Increase Risk for Hypertension(Nemours Foundation)
  • High Blood Pressure Often Missed in Kids(Nemours Foundation)
• Journal Articles

  References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

  • Article: Evidence for the reaffirmation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task...
  • Article: Screening for high blood pressure: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force...
  • Article: Summaries for patients. Screening for high blood pressure: U.S. Preventive...
  • High Blood Pressure -- see more articles
• Dictionaries/Glossaries
  • Hypertension Glossary(Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
• Organizations
  • American Heart Association
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Statistics
  • FASTATS: Hypertension(National Center for Health Statistics)
  • High Blood Pressure(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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  • Mission Case File: Facts about HBPccNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Children
  • High Blood Pressure and Children: Early Treatment Offers Hope(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • High Blood Pressure and Children: Watch Your Child's Weight(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Teenagers
  • Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)(Nemours Foundation)
• Women
  • About High Blood Pressure: A Special Message for Women(American Heart Association)
  • Menopause and High Blood Pressure: What's the Connection?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Seniors
  • High Blood Pressure(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
  • High Blood Pressure(National Institute on Aging)

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  • Seniors and Blood Pressure Medicines(American Academy of Family Physicians)

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