Objective To analyze the hot spots and development trends of the relevant literature about risk assessment of hypertension and target organ damage in recent 20 years. Methods Computers were used to retrieve the risk assessment of hypertension and target organ damage in CNKI and WOS from January 1,1999 to April 15,2018.CiteSpaceV and KNS6.6 were used to visualize the authors,research institutes,fund and keywords,and discuss their major research groups,hot spots,core citations,research frontiers and trends,etc. Results The literature analysis showed that the main researchers were HU Da-yi,WU Sho...