Nancy T. Artinian

TL;DR: In order to achieve these goals, healthcare providers must focus on reducing CVD risk factors such as overweight and obesity, which could increase by almost 7 years if all forms of major CVD were eliminated.

TL;DR: The reader should view the expert consensus document as the best attempt of the ACCF and document cosponsors to inform and guide clinical practice in areas where rigorous evidence may not yet be available or evidence to date is not widely applied to clinical practice.

TL;DR: It is recommended that HBPM should become a routine component of BP measurement in the majority of patients with known or suspected hypertension and patients should be advised to purchase oscillometric monitors that measure BP on the upper arm with an appropriate cuff size and that have been shown to be accurate according to standard international protocols.

TL;DR: The ACCF/AHA Expert Consensus Document as discussed by the authors was developed as an expert consensus document by the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and the American Heart Association (AHA), in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), AAN, the American Physicians Association (ACP), American Geriatrics Society (AGS), the American Society of Hypertension (ASH), the ASCN), ASCN, ASCP, American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC), the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), and the European

TL;DR: In this paper, Bhatt et al. discuss the role of race conditions in the development of FAHA and discuss the importance of race safety in the FAHA program and its role in FAHA.