Hypertension is a monthly, peer reviewed, scientific journal

Scientific journal

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, established with the 1979 (Jan. & Feb.) issue (vol. 1), and published by the American Heart Association

American Heart Association

The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas...

 (AHA). The Editor in Chief

Editor in chief

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 is John E. Hall (University of Mississippi

University of Mississippi

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).

Other involved contributors or authors are the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, Interamerican Society of Hypertension.

Publishing formats include original manuscripts (6000 words), invited review summaries (6000 words), invited case-based reviews (6000 words), recent study highlights (3000 words), invited brief commentaries (1500 words), scientific or technical tutorials (6000 words), letter to the editor (500 words), and novel findings of unusual interest (1000 words).

Scope

The focus of this journal are different aspects of studying hypertension

Hypertension

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. What that means is that the heart is having to work harder than it should to pump the blood around the body. Blood pressure involves two measurements, systolic and...

, which includes pathophysiology

Pathophysiology

Pathophysiology is the study of the changes of normal mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions, either caused by a disease, or resulting from an abnormal syndrome...

, blood pressure regulation, clinical treatment, and prevention. Original contributions span topics such as basic research

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 , clinical studies , and population studies of hypertension. These studies include related fields such as nephrology, endocrinology, neuroscience, vascular biology, physiology, pharmacology, cellular and molecular biology, and genetics.

Abstracting and indexing

Hypertension is indexed in the following databases:

• BIOSIS Previews
  BIOSIS Previews
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• Chemical Abstracts 0009-2258
• Chemical Abstracts Service
  Chemical Abstracts Service
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   - CASSI
  Cassi
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• Current Contents
  Current Contents
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   - Clinical Medicine
• Current Contents - Life Sciences
• Science Citation Index
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• SciSearch

External links

• Home page. American Heart Association. August 2010.
• Scientific Statements regarding Hypertension. American Heart Association. (2001–2009).