Publications & Research
The Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) offers resources for health care professionals, pharmacists, community health workers, employers, and the public. You can search the Publications & Research section for guides, toolkits, summaries of recent research, podcasts, and much more to support your heart disease and stroke prevention programs.
Find resources for community health workers, pharmacists, and employers.
Read the latest research from CDC scientists on heart disease and stroke.
Get action guides and strategies for heart disease and stroke prevention.
Search our Science-in-Briefs summaries of articles by topic.
Watch videos and training webinars on heart disease and stroke topics.
Find fact sheets, reports, and other tools on heart disease and stroke policies.
Stroke Systems of Care: Policy Evidence Assessment Reports (PEAR)
These reports assess the best available evidence for policy interventions to improve stroke care across the care continuum.
Early Evaluation Findings of Health Care System Interventions to Address Hypertension Cdc-pdf[PDF – 1.4 MB]
This is a summary of three articles in Preventing Chronic Disease 2018 Special Collection1 submitted by states funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity, and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health (DP13-1305) and State and Local Public Health Actions to Prevent Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Disease and Stroke (DP14-1422) cooperative agreements.
A Clustered-Randomized Trial of Blood-Pressure Reduction in Black Barbershops Cdc-pdf[PDF – 147 KB]
A synopsis of the article “A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Blood-Pressure Reduction in Black Barbershops,” published in the March 12, 2018, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/ PCNA Guidelines for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults Cdc-pdf[PDF – 145 KB]
A synopsis of 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guidelines for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults published in 2017 by the writing committee of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines.