Hypertension + Heart Failure - evaluation and management guidelines:

Published by: Apollo Managed Care Consultants

Published: Sep. 1, 2009 - 114 Pages

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Relevant quotations

Incidence and prevalence

Diagnostic criteria for hypertension (update 11-05)

Measuring BP (New 11-05)

‘White Coat Hypertension

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) (New 11-05)

Prevention of hypertension (New 1-05, update 12-06)

Folate intake

Magnesium intake (New 12-06)

Sodium/salt intake (New 5-07)

Medications that increase blood pressure (New 1-08)

Home blood pressure monitoring (update 2-09)

Pharmacist management over the web (New 2-09)

Primary or essential hypertension

Resistant or difficult to control hypertension (New 6-09)

Secondary hypertension

Renovascular hypertension (New 6-06, update 5-08, 8-09)

Nocturnal blood pressure levels (New 11-05)

Hypertension in diabetes (update 2-09)

Hypertension and pregnancy

Hypertension and renal disease

Hypertension and cardiac disease (update 8-09)

Hypertension and lead exposure

Echocardiography

Follow-up visits for mild to moderate hypertension

Indications for additional lab or radiologic evaluation

Isolated systolic hypertension

Malignant hypertension

Hypertension definitions - Table I.

Retinopathy

Secondary Hypertension - Table II.

History, etiologic factors

Obesity - Hypertension relationships

Physical and laboratory evaluation

Patient education

Surgery in the hypertensive patient

Therapy - nonpharmacologic

Stress reduction (update 1-08)

Exercise (update 4-05, 7-05)

Diet/nutritional issues including sodium, calcium, potassium, soy, alcohol, folate, chocolate, other (update 8-0, 7-07, 8-08)

Dash diet

Mediterrean diet

Pharmacologic therapy (update 7-06)

Effect of calcium + vitamin D (New 10-08)

Anti-hypertensive therapy in black patients

Dual indications for common antihypertensive agents (update 5-08)

Step Therapy (update 4-09)

Common oral antihypertensive drugs by class (table) (update 4-07, 9-07, 3-09)

Recommendations from JNC 7 (New 1-05)

Hypertensive emergencies (New 1-08)

Quality measures - HEDIS, AHA/AMA (update 3-05)

References and Resources - by topic heading

Patient Education/Web Resources (update 5-07)

Hypertension-related web sites

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