The study by Liska and colleagues in the last issue of Annals1 led many to challenge the
JNC 7 guidelines, 2 which the study's data were interpreted to support. Noting that the …

To the Editor: The importance of the article “The New 'Normal'Blood Pressure: What Are the
Implications for Family Medicine?” by Viera in the January issue of The Journal of the …

To the Editor: I thank Dr. Wexler for his letter and agree that it is important to continue to
improve hypertension recognition and blood pressure (BP) control in hypertensive patients …

Hypertension is the most prevalent and modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factor in the
United States. In light of data suggesting that the prevalence rate of hypertension is …

Over the 4 decades since the CARDIA longitudinal cohort study began, several reports have
characterized risk factors, incidence, and cardiovascular disease outcomes associated with …

Raised systolic blood pressure (BP) is a powerful independent risk factor for cardiovascular
mortality and death from all causes. 1 It is also a major cause of clinical and pre-clinical …

British Medical Journal (BMJ), Law and colleagues1 state:''Our results indicate the
importance of lowering blood pressure (BP) in everyone over a certain age, rather than …

Dr Kerr's reluctance to accept that treatment of mild hypertension with drugs reduces cardiac
mortality is fully defensible, although his reluctance to accept that it reduces the risk for …

DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA. 114.03687 patients' compliance is likely to be limited.
Additionally, it is we physicians who are to blame for therapeutic inertia when facing aTRH4 …

In response to our recent study, 1 Kwatra et al2 wrote a Letter to the Editor indicating that we
missed the opportunity to emphasize the evidence for pharmacotherapy in this population …