Management of hypertensionMany guidelines exist for the management of hypertension. Most groups, including the JNC, the American Diabetes Associate (ADA), and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) recommend lifestyle modification as the first step in managing hypertension.Lifestyle modificationsJNC 7 recommendation...

The 2020 Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines were developed by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) Guidelines Committee based on evidence criteria to be used globally. RemoveIn addition to BP control, the therapeutic strategy should include lifestyle changes, body weight control and the effective treatment of the other risk fac...

This clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain provides recommendations and algorithms for clinicians to assess and diagnose chest pain in adult patients.The “2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/CHEST/SAEM/SCCT/SCMR Guideline for the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain” provides recommendations based on contemporary evidence on...

Results from the meta-analysis of 48 trials demonstrated that even a small reduction in systolic blood pressure (just 5 mm Hg) could reduce the risk of cardiovascular events by 10%, and even at normal or high-normal blood pressure values. These findings suggest that a fixed degree of pharmacological blood pressure lowering is similarly effec...

The 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines eliminate the (JNC 7) classification of prehypertension and divides it into two levels: Elevated blood pressure with a systolic pressure between 120 and 129 mm Hg and diastolic pressure less than 80 mm Hg Stage 1 hypertension, with a systolic pressure of 130 to 139 mm Hg or a diastoli...