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- Title
A year since JNC 7: What's new about hypertension.
- Authors
Devereux, Richard B.; Ofili, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Focuses on the development in hypertension management after the implementation of the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee in Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) in the U.S., as of August 2005. Criticisms against some of the recommendations made by JNC 7; Outcome of the use of diuretic monotherapy in the treatment of patients with hypertension; Considerations for the treatment of systolic blood pressure in elderly patients. INSET: Rationale for JNC 7.
- Subjects
HYPERTENSION; DIURETICS; BLOOD pressure; HYPERTENSION in old age; THERAPEUTICS; PREVENTIVE medicine
- Publication
Patient Care (Print), 2004, Vol 38, Issue 8, p52
- ISSN
0031-305X
- Publication type
Article