About Us


The Hypertension Institute specializes in the prevention, diagnosis and management of hypertension (high blood pressure), cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, vascular aging, and their complications by providing patients with the latest clinical research, patient care, and education with the most sophisticated specialty, primary care and hypertensive treatments. We strive to prevent complications such as coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction (heart attack), congestive heart failure, kidney disease, and cerebrovascular accidents (stroke). It is through in-depth consultation, examination, non-drug and drug treatment that patients are able to permanently modify their lifestyles and reduce cardiovascular risk. The Hypertension Institute is equipped with state-of-the-art education, nutrition institute, facial rejuvenation institute, a diagnostic lab, and treatment center staffed with registered nurses, a nurse practitioner, nutritionist, exercise physiologist, personal trainer, and physicians who are board certified in hypertension by The American Society for Hypertension (ASH) and in Internal Medicine. The Hypertension Institute also offers numerous national and worldwide trials for new drugs and nutritional and nutraceuticals to treat high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease.  It is here where patients and their families are educated about:

  • Lifestyle modification, nutrition, and exercise
  • Risk factor profiles for: coronary heart disease, cholesterol and lipids, diabetes, insulin resistance, homocysteine and other traditional and emerging risk factors
  • Stress management
  • Weight management
  • Clinical age management and slowing the vascular aging process
  • Nutraceuticals, vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, and other supplements
  • Bioidentical Hormone Replacement
  • Facial rejuvenation, aesthetics, and cosmeceuticals
  • Exercise Training

The Hypertension Institute is one of a prestigious group of organizations selected by a national committee of experts to be a Cardiovascular Center of Excellence (COSEHC) in the US. The Hypertension Institute incorporates recent clinical research on aging and teaches you how to use this information to live a longer, healthier life. For the first time ever, we have the power and the knowledge to change our fate and make a real difference in both the quality and quantity of our lives.

Vitamins, nutrients, nutraceuticals, antioxidants and other supplements may help to protect the body against toxic compounds and free radicals that may accelerate the aging process and vascular disease.

Our staff is equipped with the most sophisticated diagnostic tools available to offer the following services as needed:

  • Blood chemistry analysis with specialized expanded lipid analysis, SpectraCell FIA Nutritional Analysis and telomere testing to predict biological age and aging
  • Electrocardiogram
  • Chest x-ray
  • 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
  • Echocardiography (regular and exercise)
  • Stress testing
  • Carotid Doppler evaluation
  • Renal artery duplex
  • Renal arteriograms
  • Specialized radiologic and cardiovascular procedures
  • Arterial compliance PulseWave evaluation
  • Arterial brachial index measurement
  • Cardiac scans of the heart and chest
  • MRI of heart, chest, abdomen, and brain
  • CT Scans of heart, chest, abdomen, and brain
  • Thallium TMT (Persantine, Adenosine, and Dobutamine)
  • Electronic beam tomography (EBT)
  • Peripheral arterial duplex at rest and with exercise
  • Venous duplex
  • Tanita Bony Composition Analysis
  • Retinal Scans for Eye Disease and Retinal Vasculature
  • 24 Hour Holter & Cardionet Monitoring
  • Exercise Echo
  • Ultrasound
  • Dexa Bone Density Scans
  • Endothelial Function Testing
  • PET Scans

RESEARCH

The Hypertension Institute strives to offer our patients access to the latest clinical research, medications, and technology in the treatment of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. In support of this mission, we have conducted clinical trials on site for major pharmaceutical companies such as Forest, AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, Solvay, Takeda, Sanofi-Aventis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Merck and others, as well as research in the areas of nutraceuticals supplements with companies such as Biotics Research and Designs For Health.

Many of these trials have produced groundbreaking data on the treatment of hypertension such as ALLHAT, CONVINCE, INVEST, ACCOMPLISH, AGELESS, and others. Besides contributing to the growing body of knowledge, these trials provide our patients with access to promising medications before they are approved for the marketplace. The care is at no cost to the patient and most patients benefit from the close monitoring by our physicians and research staff.

Our research staff is composed of a professional group of study coordinators who are solely dedicated to clinical research. These coordinators have over 30 years of research expertise in cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, anti-aging depression, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. All patients’ rights and care are protected by federal mandates, which are strictly adhered to in research protocols.