Hypertension Canada

#NephMadness 2019: US Hypertension Guidelines – Bold for Certain, Benefits to be Determined

April 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Doreen Rabi @doreen_rabi ‏ Doreen Rabi is an academic endocrinologist and cardiovascular health outcomes researcher at the Cummings School of Medicine, the O’Brien [...]

Hypertension Canada 2018 Update

June 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

Updates to Hypertension Canada Guidelines have been reviewed on the AJKDBlog in previous years (see 2015, 2016, and 2017). Changes in the 2018 guidelines that were just [...]

Hypertension Canada’s 2017 Guidelines

May 11, 2017 // 3 Comments

The Hypertension Canada (previously known as Canadian Hypertension Education Program [CHEP]) guidelines have been updated annually since 1999. The development process of the [...]

#CHC16: Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: An Idea Whose Time has Come?

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hypertension Canada’s 6th annual Canadian Hypertension Congress (#CHC16) is being held from Oct 19-21 2016 in Montreal. AJKD Blog will be providing some highlights from the [...]

#CHC16: Hypertension Targets: How Low Should You Go?

October 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hypertension Canada’s 6th annual Canadian Hypertension Congress (#CHC16) is being held from Oct 19-21 2016 in Montreal. AJKD Blog will be providing some highlights from the [...]

SPRINT Arrives in the Canadian Hypertension World: The 2016 CHEP Guidelines

May 10, 2016 // 3 Comments

The big hypertension, and even nephrology, story of 2015 was the release of the SPRINT trial. The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) trial compared an [...]