Scientific Articles

• Hypertension and Diabetes
• Hypertension and Diabetic Nephropathy by Dr. Joseph I. Shapiro
• The High Blood Pressure/Heart Failure Link: A new Concern for Older Americans
• Detection and Control of Hypertension in the Population - USA Experience
• Fact Sheet: Isolated Systolic Hypertension (ISH) by Dr. Peter Sleight
• Patient Education Project Report by Dr. Arun Chockalingam
• The Pan American Hypertension Initiative (PAHI) Mission
• Non-communicable diseases control initiative in the WHO - EMRO area by Dr. Azhar M.A. Faruqui
• A dash of salt and tone: Recent trials providing new insights into the diet-blood pressure - health link by Dr. Myron Weinberger
• Treatment Targets: Systolic or Diastolic Pressure? by Dr. Myron H. Weinberger
• Decalogue of a Patient With Hypertension by Dr. Stefan Farsky, Slovakia.
• Managing Pre-Hypertension- Reducing a Global Burden or Preventing a Global Catastrophe?- Lawrence Beilin Department of Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia and HeartSearch, Western Australia.
• Overweight and Obesity: A Global Problem requires Practical Tools by Karen Donato, USA.
• A Brief Report of the Activities of the Nurses Hypertension Association by Bernadette Stribling, UK.
• Therapeutic Role of Exercise in Treating Hypertension by Dr. Dalynn Badenhop, USA
• Strength Training and Hypertension by Dr. Ruby Nucklos, USA
• The Diabetes Scourge by Dr. Patrick J. Mulrow, USA
• Hypertension and Sleep Disordered Breathing by Dr. Youngsook Yoon, USA
• Teaching the Teacher: A WHO/WHL Cross Cultural Project for Training Health Personnel in Methods of Patient Education for Hypertension by Dr. Arun Chockalingam and Dr. Porfirio Nordet

Journal Articles

• Drug therapy. Obesity. Yanovski SZ, Yanovski JA. N Engl J Med 346:8; 591-602, 2002.
• Blood pressure measuring devices: recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension. Eoin O'Brien, Bernard Waeber, Gianfranco Parati, Jan Staessen, Martin G. Myers on behalf of the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring. British Medical Journal 322: 531-536, 2001.
• Impact of high-normal blood pressure on the risk of cardiovascular disease. R.S. Vasan, M.G. Larson, E.P. Leip, J.C. Evans, C.J. O'Donnell, W.B. Kannel, and D. Levy. N Engl J Med 345:18; 1291-1297, 2001.
• Major Outcomes in High-Risk Hypertensive Patients Randomized to Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor or Calcium Channel Blocker vs. Diuretic. The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT). The ALLHAT Officers and Coordinators for the ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group. JAMA 2002; 288: 2981-97.
• Major Outcomes in Moderately Hypercholesterolemic Hypertensive Patients Randomized to Pravastatin vs.Usual Care. The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT). The ALLHAT Officers and Coordinators for the ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group. JAMA 2002; 288: 2998-3007.
• The increase in serum uric acid induced by diuretics could be beneficial to cardiovascular prognosis in hypertension: a hypothesis. Ariel J. Reyes and William P. Leary. J Hypertens 2003, 21: 1775-1777. Copyright Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Training

• Video by Mayo Clinic on BP measurement. Designed for consumers. On the Mayo Clinc site, click on 'Movie: Mechanical gauge blood pressure cuff' at the bottom of the page. http://www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/conditioncenters/subcenters.cfm?objectid=000E3469-89ED-1B37-8D7E80C8D77A0000
• Video by British Hypertension Society. Designed as a training video for health professionals.   http://www.abdn.ac.uk/medical/bhs/tutorial/tutorial.htm (42.8 MB download)
• Rules for BP Measurement

WHL Activities

The Egyptian Hypertension Society (EHS) has been very active.

• Egyptian Hypertension Society: President Report 2001 (available in .pdf format)
• Hypertension Information Center proposed activities
• Egyptian Hypertension Center by Mohsen Ibrahim, Cairo, Egypt.
• Information Center Survey

Guidelines

• Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment
  of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/
  
• 2003 World Health Organization (WHO)/International Society of Hypertension (ISH) statement on management of hypertension - http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases/guidelines/hypertension/en/