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Guidelines on the choice of agents and how best to step up treatment for various subgroups in hypertension (high blood pressure) have changed over time and differ between countries. A Comparison of International Guidelines on Goal Blood Pressure and Initial Therapy for Adults With Hypertension (adapted from JNC 8 guidelines [ 1 ] )
Guidelines for treating resistant hypertension have been published in the UK [45] and US. [46] It has been proposed that a proportion of resistant hypertension may be the result of chronic high activity of the autonomic nervous system, known as "neurogenic hypertension". [47] Low adherence to treatment is an important cause of resistant ...
A 2024 clinical guideline recommended an increase dietary fiber intake, [132] with a minimum of 28g/day for women and 38g/day for men diagnosed with hypertension. [133] Increasing dietary potassium has a potential benefit for lowering the risk of hypertension.
In the United Kingdom, the June 2006 "Hypertension: Management of Hypertension in Adults in Primary Care" [38] guideline of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, downgraded the role of beta-blockers due to their risk of provoking type 2 diabetes. [39]
Careful monitoring for signs of end-organ damage or progression to hypertension is an important part of the follow-up of patients with prehypertension. Any change in blood pressure classification should be confirmed on at least one subsequent visit. The major indication for pharmacologic antihypertensive therapy is progression to hypertension.
LabCorp Applauds National Kidney Foundation's Guidance about Testing for Chronic Kidney Disease; LabCorp's CKD Program Provides Clinically Significant Data to Assist Diagnosis and Treatment ...
A medical guideline (also called a clinical guideline, standard treatment guideline, or clinical practice guideline) is a document with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment in specific areas of healthcare. Such documents have been in use for thousands of years during the entire history of medicine
In practice, each individual's autonomic nervous system and other systems regulating blood pressure, notably the kidney, [89] respond to and regulate all these factors so that, although the above issues are important, they rarely act in isolation and the actual arterial pressure response of a given individual can vary widely in the short and ...