Should treatment of ‘elevated’ blood pressure, especially in older people, be based on global risk estimation?

• Sverre E. Kjeldsen,
• Mattias Brunström,
• Michel Burnier,
• Brent Egan,
• Krzysztof Narkiewicz,
• Reinhold Kreutz,
• Giuseppe Mancia

Affiliations

Sverre E. Kjeldsen

Departments of Cardiology and Nephrology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway

Mattias Brunström

Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Michel Burnier

Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Brent Egan

University of South Carolina, Greenville, SC, USA

Krzysztof Narkiewicz

Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Reinhold Kreutz

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Berlin, Germany

Giuseppe Mancia

University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy