Correction: Hypertension guidelines

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

Correction: Hypertension guidelines

Cleve Clin J Med. 2019 Mar;86(3):210.

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: 30849041

Abstract

In Aleyadeh W, Hutt-Centeno E, Ahmed HM, Shah NP. Hypertension guidelines: treat patients, not numbers. Cleve Clin J Med 2019; 86(1):47-56. doi:10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027, on page 50, the following statement was incorrect: "In 2017, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) recommended a relaxed systolic blood pressure target, ie, below 150 mm Hg, for adults over age 60, but a tighter goal of less than 130 mm Hg for the same age group if they have transient ischemic attack, stroke, or high cardiovascular risk.⁹" In fact, the ACP and AAFP recommended a tighter goal of less than 140 mm Hg for this higher-risk group. This has been corrected online.

Publication types

Published Erratum