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[New 2018 European guidelines for the management of hypertension and comparison with the 2017 American guidelines].
Revue Médicale de Liège 2018 November
New European guidelines for high blood pressure management have just been published in 2018, modifying those published in 2013 and may be seen as a response to those published by the American societies late 2017. The latter proposed a new definition of hypertension (blood pressure equal or higher than 130/80 mmHg), a therapeutic approach based on the evaluation of the cardiovascular risk, and a blood pressure target inferior to130/80 mmHg in all patients, even those older than 80 years still valid. The European guidelines, on the contrary, maintain the definition threshold of hypertension to a blood pressure equal or higher than 140/90 mmHg. This diagnosis remains based on blood pressure determination at the medical office, confirmed if possible by the use of out of the clinic blood pressure measurements such as home blood pressure and/or 24h ambulatory blood pressure measurement. In comparison with 2013, these new guidelines are closer to the American ones for the management, with the need to evaluate the cardiovascular risk before deciding to initiate a drug treatment in addition to lifestyle and diet measures. A medical therapy will be initiated if the risk is very high for blood pressure in the range of high normal blood pressure (130-139/85-89 mmHg). The blood pressure target should be inferior to 130/80 mmHg in people inferior to 65 years. For those older the blood pressure target should be inferior to 140 mmHg but superior to 120 mmHg. The antihypertensive therapy would be, in the majority of the population, a two-drug combination, if possible in a single pill to enhance the medication compliance that should be frequently checked. If the blood pressure lowering remains resistant to three drugs including a diuretic used at high dose, spironolactone would be recommended, at a low dose. In comparison with 2013, the device-based therapies (renal denervation) are no longer recommended.
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