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ESH – European Society of Hypertension; ISH – International Society for Hypertension; ISHIB – International Society for Hypertension in Blacks; JNC – Joint National Committee; KDIGO – Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcome; NICE – National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (United Kingdom) SBP – systolic blood pressure
It's a good question, and one doctors didn't regularly field until the Joint National Committee of the American Heart Association announced its hypertension criteria in 2017. It was the first ...
The study concluded that major CHD events did not differ between initial use of chlorthalidone versus lisinopril or amlodipine. As a result, the Joint National Committee (7) guidelines of 2003, recommended the cheaper but equally effective diuretics as a first line treatment for hypertension. The study also confirmed the previously held views ...
In the United States, the JNC8 (Eighth Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure) recommends thiazide-type diuretics to be one of the first-line drug treatments for hypertension, either as monotherapy or in combination with calcium channel blockers, ACEis, or ARBs. [7]
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. [11] High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms itself. [ 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 ...
Hypertension - A systematic review by the Cochrane Hypertension group assessing the anti-hypertensive effects of loop diuretics found only a modest reduction in blood pressure when compared to placebo. [14] According to Joint National Committee (JNC-8) guidelines, the first line treatment of hypertension is thiazide diuretics. The use of loop ...
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