AMA Ed Hub Logo

Learn more on hypertension from AMA Ed Hub™
Red JAMA Logo

Learn more on hypertension from JAMA Network™
2025 Annual Meeting of the HOD

Learn more on hypertension from PolicyFinder
Physician taking a patient's blood pressure

Learn more about Target: BP™
Clear Search
UPDATED
·
4 Min Read

Improving health outcomes: Hypertension publications

View a collection of AMA publications that highlight the importance of accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement and effective treatment of hypertension.

Prevention & Wellness
Female customer makes a purchase at a pharmacy
·
4 Min Read

Validated devices: The missing link in state Medicaid BP efforts

Learn how Medicaid can help patients get accurate devices to measure their BP at home and partner with doctors to address hypertension.

Prevention & Wellness
UPDATED
·
3 Min Read

The validation of BP measurement devices for clinical accuracy

Learn more about Validate BP, the VDL Criteria and the latest US Blood Pressure Validated Device Listing (VDL™).

Prevention & Wellness
Hypertension Glossary of Terms-series only
·
4 Min Read

What is high blood pressure?

AMA tools and resources—including communication strategies, infographic and quick guide PDFs—enable physicians to better diagnose and manage high BP while also helping patients take an active role in the process.

series
Prevention & Wellness
Health Care Definitions
Blood pressure device
·
3 Min Read

A trick for improving BP measurement: Only buy validated devices

Find out how a large health system has worked to improve BP measurement by sticking with devices on the US Blood Pressure Validated Device Listing.

Prevention & Wellness
List with check marks
·
4 Min Read

Why doctors and patients can count on these BP devices

Explore four reasons why physicians can have confidence in the devices on the US Blood Pressure Validated Device Listing for accurate BP readings.

Prevention & Wellness
Physician taking patient's blood pressure
·
3 Min Read

Tech enables population health approach to better BP control

Learn how an AMA collaboration with the nation’s largest population health tech company could transform the delivery of hypertension care.

Prevention & Wellness
Patient having blood pressure taken during checkup
·
3 Min Read

New AMA collaboration aims to correct course on falling BP control

Getting the right data at the right time can help physicians and health care organizations better manage hypertension. Learn more with the AMA.

Prevention & Wellness
Arm with blood pressure cuff
·
4 Min Read

Medicaid often doesn’t cover self-measured BP. Now that’s changing.

Measuring BP at home can help control hypertension and chip away at the $131 billion cost of uncontrolled blood pressure in the U.S. Learn more.

Prevention & Wellness