 Hypertension
"Hypertension" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more.
| Descriptor ID |
D006973
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.907.489
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| Concept/Terms |
Hypertension- Hypertension
- Blood Pressure, High
- Blood Pressures, High
- High Blood Pressure
- High Blood Pressures
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hypertension" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hypertension" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 1997 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 1998 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 1999 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2000 | 10 | 1 | 11 | | 2001 | 9 | 3 | 12 | | 2002 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2003 | 7 | 8 | 15 | | 2004 | 12 | 4 | 16 | | 2005 | 12 | 9 | 21 | | 2006 | 8 | 5 | 13 | | 2007 | 15 | 13 | 28 | | 2008 | 16 | 9 | 25 | | 2009 | 11 | 10 | 21 | | 2010 | 19 | 12 | 31 | | 2011 | 19 | 10 | 29 | | 2012 | 19 | 19 | 38 | | 2013 | 27 | 11 | 38 | | 2014 | 29 | 6 | 35 | | 2015 | 28 | 15 | 43 | | 2016 | 24 | 11 | 35 | | 2017 | 28 | 11 | 39 | | 2018 | 40 | 12 | 52 | | 2019 | 34 | 13 | 47 | | 2020 | 40 | 6 | 46 | | 2021 | 37 | 3 | 40 | | 2022 | 55 | 4 | 59 | | 2023 | 42 | 2 | 44 | | 2024 | 33 | 1 | 34 | | 2025 | 24 | 6 | 30 | | 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hypertension" by people in Profiles.
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Lobo I, Koon K, Potthast K, Ozmina K, Billups SJ. A Multi-Intervention Approach to Blood Pressure Control: A Description of How a Large University Based Primary Care Clinic Tackled Hypertension. Popul Health Manag. 2026 Feb; 29(1):18-26.
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Billups SJ, Daffron A, Harty C, Schilling LM, Lowe RN, Lobo I. Centralized outreach with embedded pharmacist e-consultation to reduce therapeutic inertia and improve blood pressure control. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2025 Nov 07; 82(22):1249-1255.
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Derington CG, Berchie RO, Greene T, Jacobs JA, Moran AE, Xu Y, Narita K, Zheutlin AR, Cohen JB, Shimbo D, Bress AP. Using PREVENT Equations to Compare Intensive vs Standard Systolic Blood Pressure Control for Primary Prevention in SPRINT. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Oct 28; 86(17):1437-1448.
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Ananthamohan K, Brady TM, Arif M, Daniels SR, Falkner B, Ferguson M, Flynn JT, Hanevold C, Hooper SR, Ingelfinger JR, Lande M, Martin LJ, Meyers KE, Mitsnefes M, Rosner B, Samuels JA, Kuffel G, Zilliox MJ, Chen QM, Becker RC, Urbina EM, Sadayappan S. A Multiomics Approach to Defining Target-Organ Injury in Youths With Primary Hypertension: The SHIP AHOY Cohort. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Nov 04; 14(21):e037649.
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Lin PD, Rifas-Shiman SL, Petimar J, Yu H, Daley MF, Janicke DM, Heerman WJ, Bailey LC, Maeztu C, Lewis KH, Young JG, Block JP. Emulation of a Target Trial of Antihypertensive Medications on Weight Change. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Mar; 41(4):1097-1106.
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Singh R, Pierce CB, Makker K, Jacobson L, Jensen ET, Vaidya R, Gogcu S, Sanderson K, South AM, Thompson A, Perng W, Perrin EM, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Dunlop AL, Dabelea D, Ferrara A, Hedderson MM, Zhu Y, Karagas M, Camargo CA, Hockett CW, Aris IM, McEvoy CT, Ganiban JM, Farzan S, Serrano-Gonzalez M, Carnell S, Geiger SD, Zhao Q, O'Shea TM. Association of Maternal Prepregnancy BMI With Offspring Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Childhood. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2025 Dec; 33(12):2330-2344.
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Jahan A, Abdullah MM, Frank R, Castellanos LJ, Singer P, Shen CL, Basalely AM, Sethna CB. Body Roundness Index is a Stronger Predictor of Cardiometabolic Risk than Body Mass Index in Children between Ages 8 to 17 years. J Pediatr. 2026 01; 288:114826.
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Malashi R, Sharma S, Adhikari S, Sharma CR, Joshi AK, Bhandari B. Prevalence of hypertension and its associated factors among government employees in Doti district of Nepal. PLoS One. 2025; 20(8):e0330753.
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Lin Y, Zeidan RS, Lapierre-Nguyen S, Costello HM, Anton SD, Buford TW, Christou DD, Gumz ML, Leeuwenburgh C, Martens CR, McDermott MM, Migaud ME, Sandesara B, Seals DR, Qiu P, Wang Y, Mankowski RT. Nicotinamide riboside combined with exercise to treat hypertension in middle-aged and older adults: a pilot randomized clinical trial. Geroscience. 2025 Dec; 47(6):6895-6908.
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Pilla SJ, Yeh HC, Mitchell CM, Miller ER, Oh S, White K, Durkin N, Stein AA, Charleston JB, Lu M, Hu X, Wu B, Selvin E, Fang M, Maruthur NM, Juraschek SP, Mueller NT, Wang NY, Appel LJ. Dietary Patterns, Sodium Reduction, and Blood Pressure in Type 2 Diabetes: The DASH4D Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Aug 01; 185(8):937-946.
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