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The management of hypertension in Canada: a review of current guidelines, their shortcomings and implications for the future.

Clinicians are exposed to numerous hypertension guidelines. However, their enthusiasm for these guidelines, and the impact of the guidelines, appears modest at best. Barriers to the successful implementation of a guideline can be identified at the level of the clinician, the patient or the practice setting; however, the shortcomings of the guidelines themselves have received little attention. I...

A plea for harmonising guidelines.

The move towards holistic management of cardiovascular disease whereby patients presenting with what appears to be an isolated abnormality, such as hypertension, are evaluated for mUltiple risk factors is to be welcomed [1]. Indeed, acceptance of this ethos is found in three prestigious guidelines The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatme...

Summary of the 2007 European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension

Background The Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) published their fi rst European-specifi c guidelines in 2003. The decision to publish their own recommendations recognized that their historical endorsement of the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Society of Hyperten...

Pulmonary Hypertension Registry: a 10-Year Experience

Background: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), a fatal orphan disease, is defined as increased mean Pulmonary Arterial Pressure (mPAP) above 25 mm/Hg, Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure (PCWP) below 15 mm/Hg, and pulmonary vascular Resistance over 3 Wood Unit (WU). Although Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is a relatively prevalent disease, the idiopathic form (iPAH) is a rare disease with a pre...