 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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| 1995 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 1996 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 1997 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 1998 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 1999 | 9 | 2 | 11 | | 2000 | 10 | 1 | 11 | | 2001 | 10 | 2 | 12 | | 2002 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2003 | 7 | 8 | 15 | | 2004 | 12 | 4 | 16 | | 2005 | 11 | 9 | 20 | | 2006 | 10 | 4 | 14 | | 2007 | 16 | 13 | 29 | | 2008 | 17 | 9 | 26 | | 2009 | 10 | 9 | 19 | | 2010 | 18 | 11 | 29 | | 2011 | 17 | 11 | 28 | | 2012 | 21 | 17 | 38 | | 2013 | 28 | 13 | 41 | | 2014 | 27 | 5 | 32 | | 2015 | 31 | 15 | 46 | | 2016 | 26 | 13 | 39 | | 2017 | 31 | 12 | 43 | | 2018 | 41 | 11 | 52 | | 2019 | 38 | 14 | 52 | | 2020 | 42 | 8 | 50 | | 2021 | 43 | 3 | 46 | | 2022 | 54 | 4 | 58 | | 2023 | 44 | 2 | 46 | | 2024 | 35 | 1 | 36 | | 2025 | 21 | 5 | 26 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hypertension" by people in Profiles.
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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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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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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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Canonico ME, Hsia J, Chiu ST, Tseng PK, Mudd JO, Remick JD, Patel B, Chuang YH, Gluckman TJ, Bonaca MP. Temporal shift in prevalence of heart failure diagnoses and comorbidities within 2 US integrated health systems. Am J Manag Care. 2025 Aug 01; 31(8):e238-e240.
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Derington CG, Berchie RO, Mohanty AF, Jacobs JA, Xu Y, King JB, Rethy L, Cushman WC, Zickmund SL, Ho PM, Raghavan S, Cohen JB, Bress AP. First-Line ß-Blocker Use for Hypertension in the Veterans Health Administration. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Aug 01; 8(8):e2529026.
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Hogue T, Das P, Reczek S, Hampton-Marcell J, Ford Y, Raval D, Carroll I, Cook MD. Effect of Acute Gut Butyrate Delivery on Blood Pressure in Black Individuals With Hypertension: A Proof-of-Concept Randomized Controlled Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Sep 02; 14(17):e039759.
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Keshwani S, Smith KM, Winterstein AG, Gurka MJ, Walsh MG, Libby A, Hogan W, Pepine CJ, Cooper-DeHoff RM, Smith SM. Disparities in Initial Antihypertensive Intensity by Sex, Race and Ethnicity in Newly Treated Patients With Hypertension. Am J Hypertens. 2025 Jul 15; 38(8):560-569.
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Boggess K, Leach J, Dugoff L, Sibai B, Hughes BL, Bell J, Aagaard K, Edwards R, Gibson K, Haas DM, Plante L, Metz T, Casey B, Longo S, Hoffman MK, Saade GR, Hoppe KK, Foroutan J, Owens M, Simhan HN, Frey H, Rosen T, Palatnik A, Baker S, Kinzler W, Su E, Krishna I, Norton ME, Skupski D, El-Sayed YY, Librizzi R, Pereira L, Habli M, Williams S, Pridijan G, McKenna DS, Chang E, Osmundson S, Galis Z, Harper L, Ambalavanan N, Szychowski J, Tita A. Relationship Between Third-Trimester Low Maternal Blood Pressure and Small-for-Gestational-Age Birth Weight in Pregnant Individuals With Mild Chronic Hypertension. Obstet Gynecol. 2025 Jul 10; 146(3):405-412.
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Richey RE, Miner JA, Miner JC, Brunt VE, Kaplan PF, Halliwill JR, Minson CT. Exogenous estradiol increases cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity during a hypertensive stimulus in premenopausal young women. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2025 Aug 01; 329(2):H439-H449.
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