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 ...
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 ...
The JNC 8 guidelines and the AHA, ACC, and ASH advisory panels share a basic definition of hypertension for a younger segment of the population as a blood pressure equal to or greater than 140/90 mm ...