PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - Vidt, Donald G.
AU  - Gifford, Ray W.
TI  - Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
DP  - 1998 Jan 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 18--24
VI  - 65
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/65/1/18.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/65/1/18.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1998 Jan 01; 65
AB  - Physicians and public health officials need to intensify their efforts to detect and treat high blood pressure, because the incidence of hypertension-related morbidity and mortality has stopped declining, and fewer than 30% of hypertensive patients have their blood pressure under control. The JNC VI report outlines the current standard of care for treating hypertension.