- 1on1health.com: High Blood Pressure
 - GlaxoSmithKline site offering basic information for understanding high blood pressure and its treatment. - American Heart Association: High Blood Pressure Quiz
- 10 question quiz used to test your knowledge of high blood pressure. Offers a description after each question.
- American Heart Association: High Blood Pressure
- Information about uncontrolled high blood pressure which can lead to stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure.
- American Society of Hypertension
- Organization dedicated to hypertension and related cardiovascular disease. Includes guidelines for healthy living, statistics, and information on hypertension drugs.
- Blood Pressure
- Offers information about hypertension and hypotension.
- Blood Pressure Association
- Fighting blood pressure to beat stroke and heart disease. Site provides quizzes, news, research, and volunteering opportunities.
- Blood Pressure Monitoring
- International journal for the presentation of original research within the field of blood pressure monitoring and variability.
- CardiologyChannel: Hypertension or High Blood Pressure
- Covers causes, diagnosis, treatment, nutrition and medication, and preventive measures for hypertension.
- Doctor's Guide: Hypertension
- Patient resources for hypertension including news, articles, FAQ, discussion groups, and related links.
- Doctor's Practical Guide To Blood Pressure
- Offering blood pressure information covering normal and abnormal pressures, both low and high. It includes measurement, evaluation, and treatment resources.
- Dr. Blood Pressure
- High blood pressure informational website. Provides definitions, polls, tips, and more.
- eMedicine.com: Hypertensive Heart Disease
- Provides information on symptoms and treatment of heart diseases caused by hypertension or elevated blood pressure.
- eMedicineHealth: Hypertension
- Provides an overview of hypertension and its causes, symptoms, and treatment.
- familydoctor.org: Using an Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor
- Provides information about ambulatory blood pressure monitors, how to check your blood pressure, and causes of hypertension.
- High Blood Pressure Detection
- Provides details about how blood pressure is tested, what devices to use when tested, and categories for blood pressure levels.
- High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy
- Explains the development and effects of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- How To Prevent High Blood Pressure
- Provides the importance of knowing about hypertension, how it is checked, and prevention tips, Site also offers a sample walking program. From MDchoice.com.
- Hypertension
- Academic journal intended for cardiologists, endocrinologists, pharmacologists, and physicians from the American Heart Association.
- Hypertension and Memory Loss
- Article offers studies and theories that untreated hypertension can lead to memory loss by cutting down on blood flow to the brain. From the American Academy of Neurology.
- iVillage Total Health: High Blood Pressure
- Offers information on hypertension. Learn about the causes of hypertension and why high blood pressure should be monitored.
- Journal of Hypertension
- Contains authoritative reviews summarizing and evaluating recent developments in hypertension.
- KidsHealth: Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
- Information on hypertension, causes, how it affects body, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- Lowering Hypertension
- 14 questions to ask your doctor if you have high blood pressure. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- Mayo Clinic: Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment
- Information on pulmonary hypertension and associated surgeries, including pulmonary thromboendarterectomy and heart-lung transplants.
- MayoClinic: High Blood Pressure
- Provides information about the causes, treatments, prevention methods, and health effects of hypertension.
- Medical College of Wisconsin Healthlink: Blood Pressure
- Articles on hypertension, including a quiz to test your knowledge about this disorder
- MedicineNet: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Offers an extensive overview of high blood pressure. Information includes causes, treatments, medications, and alternative medicines for hypertension.
- MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Features illustrations, definition, causes, symptoms, and treatment of high blood pressure, also known as hypertension.
- MedlinePlus: High Blood Pressure
- Latest news, overview, and articles about high blood pressure. Includes treatments, photos/diagrams, tools, and statistics.
- MerckSource: Do You Have High Blood Pressure?
- Providing information about hypertension and tips for lowering it.
- NCHS Fast Stats: Hypertension
- Hypertension data for the United States for the years indicated. Includes morbidity, number of current patients with hypertension as primary diagnosis, and usage of health care. From the National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS).
- NetDoctor: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Explains about blood pressure, what is classified as hypertension, symptoms, complications, risk factors, and treatment.
- New England Journal of Medicine: Hypertension
- Articles covering topics such as diet, sleep apnea, and beta-adrenergic receptors, including case reports.
- NHLBI: Types of Blood Pressure Medications
- Provides types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure. Medications include Diuretics, Beta-blockers, Alpha-blockers, and Vasodilators. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- NHLBI: What is High Blood Pressure?
- Includes causes, signs and symptoms, prevention tips, treatments, FAQ, and risks of high blood pressure. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- NHLBI: Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure
- Learn all about high blood pressure and its treatment, from the National High Blood Pressure Education Program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- NOAH: Hypertension
- Offers hypertension basics, glossaries, possible causes, care/treatment, complications/concerns, and additional information resources.
- One Twenty Over Eighty
- Information on the causes of high blood pressure and the available methods of treament.
- Patient UK: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Overview of high blood pressure, diagnosis, causes, risk factors, and treatment.
- PHCentral
- Resources about pulmonary hypertension. Includes articles, research, glossary of terms, and message boards.
- Possible Side Effects of Drugs That Lower Blood Pressure
- Explains the risks associated with the different classes of antihypertensive drugs, including beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, and central antagonists.
- Pulmonary Hypertension Association
- Volunteer support organization for patients with primary and secondary pulmonary hypertension.
- Second Australian National Blood Pressure Study - ANBP2
- Study of hypertension in the elderly (65-84 years). Study includes outcome of treatment, additional questions, and current/planned studies.
- Take Action for Health BP
- Program designed to lower high blood pressure. From Novartis.
- WebMD: Hypertension Health Center
- Comprehensive patient-oriented information on hypertension. Site includes articles, quizzes, live event transcripts, editor's picks, and message boards.
- WHO/ISH Hypertension Guidelines
(PDF) - Printable WHO guidelines for effective management of hypertension.
- Wikipedia: Hypertension
- Article about hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure. Persistent hypertension is one of the risk factors for strokes, heart attacks, and other conditions.
- World Hypertension League
- Devoted to the advancement of hypertension prevention and control. Site offers newsletter, research, calendar of events, and links.
- WrongDiagnosis: Hypertension
- Information on hypertension, types, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and statistics.
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