Controversies in the management of patients with arterial hypertension.

Controversies in the management of patients with arterial hypertension. Kardiol Pol. 2019 Oct 01;: Authors: Burnier M Abstract Every 5 to 6 years, international and national guidelines provide updated recommendations for the standard management of hypertension in adults. Thus, within the last 18 months, European (ESC/ESH), American (ACC/AHA) and British (NICE) societies published there new guidelines. Despite the fact that all of them are supposedly based on most recent clinical evidence, there are always some discrepancies between recommendations due to different interpretations of the clinical trials. The purpose of the present review is to discuss six issues that have generated some controversies. These address the definition of hypertension, the identification of who should be treated, the target BP to achieve, the pertinence of reducing salt intake and the actual place of renal denervation in resistant hypertension. PMID: 31571674 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Polish Heart Journal - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Kardiol Pol Source Type: research