2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines

We commend the committee on an outstanding hypertension guideline.1 Nevertheless, we respectively disagree with recommendations regarding low-risk hypertensives and combination therapy. Although the authors espouse a risk-based approach to therapy, largely to justify initial drug treatment of “stage-1 hypertension” in high-risk patients, there is an oversimplification in the approach to “mild hypertension”. All patients with high blood pressure historically considered mild (140–159/90–99 mm Hg)2 are now recommended to immediately begin pharmacologic therapy even if they are aged
Source: Journal of the American Society of Hypertension - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research