- (AU) Second Australian National Blood Pressure Study - ANBP2
 - Study of hypertension in the elderly (65-84 years). Study includes outcome of treatment, additional questions, and current/planned studies. - 1on1health.com: High Blood Pressure
- GlaxoSmithKline site offering basic information for understanding high blood pressure and its treatment.
- American Heart Association: High Blood Pressure Quiz
- 10 question quiz used to test your knowledge of high blood pressure. Offers a description after each question.
- American Heart Association: High Blood Pressure
- Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure.
- American Society of Hypertension
- Dedicated exclusively to hypertension and related cardiovascular disease. Includes guidelines for healthy living, statistics, and information on hypertension drugs.
- Blood Pressure Association
- Fighting blood pressure to beat stroke and heart disease. Site provides quizzes, news, research, and volunteering opportunities.
- Blood Pressure Monitoring
- International journal for the presentation of original research within the field of blood pressure monitoring and variability.
- Doctor's Practical Guide To Blood Pressure
- Offering blood pressure information covering normal and abnormal pressures, both low and high. It includes measurement, evaluation, and treatment resources.
- Dr. Blood Pressure
- High blood pressure informational website. Provides definitions, polls, tips, and more.
- eMedicine.com: Hypertensive Heart Disease
- Provides information on symptoms and treatment of heart diseases caused by hypertension or elevated blood pressure.
- eMedicineHealth: Hypertension
- Provides an overview of hypertension and its causes, symptoms, and treatment.
- familydoctor.org: Using an Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor
- Provides information about ambulatory blood pressure monitors, how to check your blood pressure, and causes of hypertension.
- Healthline: Hypertension
- Article describing hypertension risk factors, symptoms, treatment, complications, and prevention.
- High Blood Pressure Detection
- Provides details about how blood pressure is tested, what devices to use when tested, and categories for blood pressure levels.
- High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy
- Explains the development and effects of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- How To Prevent High Blood Pressure
- Provides the importance of knowing about hypertension, how it is checked, and prevention tips, Site also offers a sample walking programme. From MDchoice.com.
- Hypertension
- Academic journal intended for cardiologists, endocrinologists, pharmacologists, and physicians from the American Heart Association.
- Hypertension and Memory Loss
- Article offers studies and theories that untreated hypertension can lead to memory loss by cutting down on blood flow to the brain. From the American Academy of Neurology.
- Hypertension Help
- Offers information on hypertension and diabetes. Learn about the causes of hypertension and why high blood pressure should be monitored by people with diabetes.
- Hypertension, Dialysis, and Clinical Nephrology
- Links to medical products, devices, services, and drugs pertaining and papers.
- Journal of Hypertension
- Contains authoritative reviews that summarize and evaluate recent developments in hypertension.
- Lowering Hypertension
- 14 questions to ask your doctor if you have high blood pressure. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- Mayo Clinic: Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment
- Information on pulmonary hypertension and associated surgeries, including pulmonary thromboendarterectomy and heart-lung transplants.
- MayoClinic: High Blood Pressure
- Provides information about the causes, treatments, prevention methods, and health effects of hypertension.
- Medical College of Wisconsin Healthlink: Blood Pressure
- Articles on hypertension, including a quiz to test your knowledge about this disorder
- MedicineNet: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Offers an extensive overview of high blood pressure. Information includes causes, treatments, medications, and alternative medicines for hypertension.
- Medicweb.org: Hypertension
- Medicweb offers information on hypertension including basic facts, symptoms, risks and complications, medication, alternative treatments, and more.
- MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Features illustrations, definition, causes, symptoms, and treatment of high blood pressure, also known as hypertension.
- MedlinePlus: High Blood Pressure
- Latest news, overview, and articles about high blood pressure. Includes treatments, photos/diagrams, tools, and statistics.
- MerckSource: Do You Have High Blood Pressure?
- Providing information about hypertension and tips for lowering it.
- NCHS Fast Stats: Hypertension
- Hypertension data for the United States for the years indicated. Includes morbidity, number of current patients with hypertension as primary diagnosis, and usage of health care. From the National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS).
- New England Journal of Medicine: Hypertension
- Articles covering topics such as diet, sleep apnoea, and beta-adrenergic receptors, including case reports.
- NHLBI: Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure
- Learn all about high blood pressure and its treatment, from the National High Blood Pressure Education Programme of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- NOAH: Hypertension
- Offers hypertension basics, glossaries, possible causes, care/treatment, complications/concerns, and additional information resources.
- One Twenty Over Eighty
- Information on the causes of high blood pressure and the available methods of treament.
- PHCentral
- Resources about pulmonary hypertension. Includes articles, research, glossary of terms, and message boards.
- Possible Side Effects of Drugs That Lower Blood Pressure
- Explains the risks associated with the different classes of antihypertensive drugs, including beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, and central antagonists.
- Pulmonary Hypertension Association
- Volunteer support organisation for patients with primary and secondary pulmonary hypertension.
- Scientific American: The Puzzle of Hypertension in African-Americans
- High blood pressure is the leading cause of health problems among black Americans. Yet inhabitants of western Africa have among the lowest rates of hypertension anywhere.
- Take Action for Health BP
- Programme designed to lower high blood pressure. From Novartis.
- Types of Blood Pressure Medications
- Provides a rundown of the main types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure. Medications include Diuretics, Beta-blockers, Alpha-blockers, and Vasodilators. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- WebMD: Hypertension Health Center
- Comprehensive patient-oriented information on hypertension. Site includes articles, quizzes, live event transcripts, editor's picks, and message boards.
- What is High Blood Pressure?
- Offers causes, signs/symptoms, prevention tips, treatments, FAQ, and other names for high blood pressure. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- Wikipedia: Hypertension
- Article about hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure. Persistent hypertension is one of the risk factors for strokes, heart attacks, and other conditions.
- World Hypertension League
- Devoted to the advancement of hypertension prevention and control. Site offers newsletter, research, calendar of events, and links.
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