Preventive Medicine Resources by Topic: Cardiovascular Diseases

Hypertension Prevention and Screening Resources

Clinical Guidelines | Miscellaneous Resources

• Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd Ed.: Table of contents
  • Screening for Hypertension: Access document

Clinical Guidelines

• National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: Homepage
  • High Blood Pressure Information for Health Care/Other Professionals: List of documents
    • Evidence-based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women (2004): Access document (PDF)
    • Report on Primary Prevention of High Blood Pressure: Access document
    • The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure: Access document (PDF)
• National Guideline Clearinghouse: MeSH browse | Detailed search
  • Hypertension (MeSH browse): List of documents
  • Hypertension (Keyword search): List of documents

Miscellaneous Hypertension Prevention and Screening Resources

• National Library of Medicine Medlineplus Health Topics: List of topics
  • High Blood Pressure: List of documents
• YAHOO - Health:Diseases and Conditions:Hypertension
  Additional Hypertension resources (These sites have not been reviewed.)
• YAHOO - Health:Diseases and Conditions:Heart Diseases
  Additional Cardiology resources (These sites have not been reviewed.)
• YAHOO - Health:Medicine:Cardiology
  Additional Cardiology resources (These sites have not been reviewed.)