Unintended consequences of the new ACC/AHA blood pressure treatment guidelines.

Unintended consequences of the new ACC/AHA blood pressure treatment guidelines. Drugs Today (Barc). 2019 Apr;55(4):277-285 Authors: Chrysant SG, Chrysant GS Abstract Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and stroke. Therefore, its early detection and treatment are very important according to blood pressure (BP) treatment guidelines issued by the various scientific societies. Over the years, BP treatment guidelines have changed from strict control of BP to more relaxed control, and lately to a strict BP control influenced by the results of the SPRINT trial. The recently published BP treatment guidelines by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) recommend a systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP reduction to less than 130 mmHg and less than 80 mmHg, respectively, for all ages, and have also changed the classification of hypertension by changing the term "prehypertension" of the JNC 7 (7th Joint National Committee) guidelines to "stage 1 hypertension". These changes could have significant social and economic consequences for the patients. In order to get a better perspective of the current status of SBP control, we conducted a MEDLINE search of the English language literature from 2014 to 2018 in connection with recent (2014-2018) BP treatment guidelines, using the terms 'hypertension', 'blood pressure control', 'intensive blood pressure control...
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