National
High Blood Pressure Education website -- Expert
guidelines: A PDF of the Seventh Report of the Joint National
Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment
of High Blood
Pressure (JCN 7) can be downloaded from the JCN
7 Express page, which is part of this website. (Note that the
link to the full-text publication of JCN 7 in the journal Hypertension
requires
a subscription or fee. See
the JAMA link below.)
Full-text
JAMA publication of Seventh Report of the Joint National
Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment
of High Blood Pressure (JCN 7)
ALLHAT
website -- ALLHAT was the largest antihypertensive trial and the
second largest lipid-lowering trial and included large numbers of
patients over age 65, women, African-Americans, and patients with
diabetes, treated largely in community practice settings. Their
publications
page includes links to PDFs for most of the publications that came
from the study.
Lawes
CM, et al. Blood pressure and the global burden of disease 2000.
Part II: estimates of attributable burden. J Hypertens. 2006 Mar;24(3):423-30.
[PubMed]
IOM
Report, A Population-Based Policy and Systems Change Approach to
Prevent and Control Hypertension, February 2010 [summary
page]
