Guidelines for diagnostics and treatment of hypertension 2018 - European experts’opinion [Guidelines]

Abstract

Hypertension is one of the most common diseases in the world. That is why guidelines fordiagnostics and treatment of hypertension attract great attention of medical specialists ofvarious fields. A new version of guidelines on hypertension jointly developed by cliniciansof the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) was presented at the European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protectionplenary meeting in Barcelona on June 8th 2018. After guidelines of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) were published in November 2017 it became one of the most anticipated events. The full text will be published on August 25th 2018 in parallel with an official presentation during the ESC Congress in Munich. Yet we already are able to estimate the degree of European experts and their American colleagues’ concurrence.

Keywords

• arterial hypertension
• blood pressure
• blood pressure control level
• antihypertensive therapy
• combination antihypertension therapy
• guidelines