Greater variability in systolic blood pressure measurements across visits in young adults may be associated with elevated risks for cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in midlife.
Treatment with amlodipine was found to be more effective at reducing the long-term risk for gout compared with treatment with lisinopril or chlorthalidone in older adults with hypertension.
Isolated diastolic hypertension, as defined in the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline was found to be more prevalent compared with IDH defined according to a 2003 recommendation.
Working >40 hours per week is associated with an increased risk for masked and sustained hypertension in white-collar workers, a study in Hypertension reports.
Hypertension, smoking, and the levels of triglycerides were found to be independently associated with the risk for cardiovascular disease in patients with dysbetalipoproteinemia.
The prescribing to patients with hypertension with or without comorbidities of optimized drug combinations with complementary modes of action for the lowering of blood pressure was not found to be widely adopted.
