High blood pressure
Raised blood pressure and its treatment.
Conditions 1
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Blood pressure that stays higher than it should over time.
Interventions 7
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Taking repeated blood pressure readings while a person goes about a normal waking day, to check whether a high reading in the clinic is confirmed.
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Medicines that lower blood pressure, started and adjusted for adults whose high blood pressure is confirmed.
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Using medicines and lifestyle changes to bring blood pressure below a chosen number and keep it there.
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Measuring your own blood pressure with a device, at home or somewhere else outside the clinic.
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Health professionals who are not doctors, such as pharmacists and nurses, providing blood pressure medicine, as long as they have proper training and prescribing authority, follow set management...
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A treatment plan that adjusts blood-pressure medicines until the top number is under 120, rather than the more usual under 140.
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Swapping ordinary table salt for a salt that has part of its sodium replaced with potassium. The aim is lower blood pressure and, over years, fewer strokes. In SSaSS, a trial in rural China among...
Products 1
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An electronic blood pressure monitor, the Omron HEM-907. The US Food and Drug Administration cleared it in 2000. The FDA record names Omron Healthcare, Inc. only as the applicant for that clearance...
Technologies 1
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A blood pressure device with a cuff for the upper arm that works out the reading itself from signals in the cuff.
Biomarkers 1
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How hard the blood pushes on the arteries and other blood vessels. Oscillometric blood pressure devices estimate a systolic value and a diastolic value.
Risk factors 1
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Sodium is the part of table salt linked with higher blood pressure when people eat a lot of it. The World Health Organization advises adults to keep sodium below 2 grams a day, which is about 5 grams...
Publications 5
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The 2024 guideline from the European Society of Cardiology on elevated blood pressure and hypertension. It updates the society's 2018 guideline, which it issued with the European Society of...
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The 2025 guideline from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, with other societies, on preventing, detecting, evaluating and managing high blood pressure in adults...
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A large analysis that pooled the original patient-level data from 48 randomised trials of blood-pressure-lowering medicines, 344,716 people in all. It asked whether the medicines lower the risk of...
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The NICE guideline on diagnosing and treating high blood pressure in adults, with the dates of its changes.
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The 2021 World Health Organization guideline on when to start blood pressure medicine in adults, which medicines to start with, which targets to aim for and who can provide the care.
Studies 1
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A large US trial that compared aiming for a top blood-pressure number below 120 with aiming below 140 in adults aged 50 and over at higher heart risk who did not have diabetes or a past stroke.
Resources 1
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STRIDE BP is a group that keeps lists of validated blood pressure monitors on its website, https://www.stridebp.org/. Its terms do not allow its content to be copied into another site, so this atlas...
Reading paths 1
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A suggested order for reading this atlas, for an adult who has been told they have a high blood pressure reading, and for their family. It starts with what a reading and a diagnosis mean, goes...
Ideas 1
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Many devices that measure blood pressure without an inflating cuff are on sale, and they claim to be accurate. A European hypertension expert group says they could change how high blood pressure is...