Highlights of ESC/ESH 2018 Guidelines on the Management of Hypertension: What Every Doctor Should Know

Abstract

This is a review article aiming to make focus on the changes made in the most recent sets of clinical recommendations and indications from European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Society of Hypertension (ESH) guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension. In particular, in this article we attempted to focus on the main new elements introduced in order to meet the need of doctors to adhere to guidelines and to provide their patients with the most updated recommendations for the clinical management of hypertension.

Keywords: Antihypertensive therapy; Blood pressure targets; Blood pressure thresholds; Clinical recommendations; European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Society of Hypertension (ESH) hypertension guidelines.