Comment on

• New staging system of the fifth Joint National Committee report on the detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure (JNC-V) alters assessment of the severity and treatment of hypertension.

  Pogue VA, Ellis C, Michel J, Francis CK. Pogue VA, et al. Hypertension. 1996 Nov;28(5):713-8. doi: 10.1161/01.hyp.28.5.713. Hypertension. 1996. PMID: 8901813
• A new classification scheme for hypertension based on relative and absolute risk with implications for treatment and reimbursement.

  Black HR, Yi JY. Black HR, et al. Hypertension. 1996 Nov;28(5):719-24. doi: 10.1161/01.hyp.28.5.719. Hypertension. 1996. PMID: 8901814 Review.