JNC 7 Express: The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committe on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure

Foreword......Page 15
Abstract......Page 16
Introduction......Page 17
Methods......Page 22
Lifetime Risk of Hypertension......Page 24
Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk......Page 25
Basis for Reclassification of Blood Pressure......Page 27
Cardiovascular Disease Risk......Page 28
Importance of Systolic Blood Pressure......Page 30
Prevention of Hypertension: Public Health Challenges
......Page 32
Community Programs......Page 33
Accurate Blood Pressure Measurement in
the Office......Page 34
Self-Measurement......Page 35
Patient Evaluation......Page 36
Laboratory Tests and Other Diagnostic Procedures......Page 37
Identifiable Causes of Hypertension......Page 38
Genetics of Hypertension......Page 40
Lifestyle Modifications......Page 41
Pharmacologic Treatment......Page 42
Rationale for Recommendation of Thiazide-Type
Diuretics as Preferred Initial Agent......Page 45
Achieving Blood Pressure Control in Individual
Patients......Page 46
Followup and Monitoring......Page 48
Compelling Indications......Page 49
Heart Failure......Page 50
Diabetes and Hypertension......Page 52
Chronic Kidney Disease......Page 53
Patients With Cerebrovascular Disease......Page 54
Metabolic Syndrome......Page 55
Prevalence......Page 56
Overweight and Obesity......Page 57
Peripheral Arterial Disease......Page 59
Hypertension in Older People......Page 60
Resistant Hypertension......Page 62
Cognitive Function and Dementia......Page 63
Hypertension in Women......Page 64
Hypertension in Children and Adolescents......Page 69
Erectile Dysfunction and Hypertension......Page 70
Dental Issues in Hypertensive Individuals......Page 72
Hypertension and the Eye......Page 73
Patients With Renovascular Disease......Page 74
Drugs and Other Agents Affecting
Blood Pressure......Page 75
Nonaspirin Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory
Drugs......Page 76
Clinical Inertia......Page 77
Role of Other Health Care Professionals......Page 78
Goal Setting and Behavioral Change......Page 79
Additional Sources of Information......Page 80
Scheme Used for Classification of the Evidence......Page 81
References......Page 82