Hypertension guidelines: Treat patients, not numbers

Wesam Aleyadeh; Erika Hutt-Centeno; Haitham M Ahmed; Nishant P Shah

doi:10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027

Hypertension guidelines: Treat patients, not numbers

Cleve Clin J Med. 2019 Jan;86(1):47-56. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027.

Authors

Wesam Aleyadeh¹, Erika Hutt-Centeno^{2

3}, Haitham M Ahmed^{4

5}, Nishant P Shah⁶

Affiliations

¹ Ministry of Health, Amman, Jordan.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
³ Clinical Instructor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁵ Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. shahn2@ccf.org.

PMID: 30624184
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027

Abstract

The updated 2017 American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines for managing hypertension advocate tighter blood pressure control than previous guidelines. This review summarizes the evidence behind the guidelines, discusses the risks and benefits of stricter blood pressure control, and provides our insights on blood pressure management in clinical practice.

Publication types

Review
Comment

MeSH terms

Adult
American Heart Association
Blood Pressure
Cardiology*
Humans
Hypertension*
Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen
United States

Substances

Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen