Nearly half of American adults, 46 percent, will be determined to have hypertension under new clinical guidelines for blood pressure monitoring, up from 32 percent under the old benchmark. This new guideline does not mean these newly classified patients with hypertension will face dramatic new risks or that physicians need to immediately begin medication treatment for most. Learn more here.
To prepare health care providers for a productive dialogue with patients, AMA and AHA launched the Target: BP Improvement Program – a suite of tools and resources that incorporates the new 2017 hypertension guideline |
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