The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Hypertension Guideline: A Resource for Practicing Clinicians

The 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults is the first comprehensive clinical practice guideline for hypertension since the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) in 2003. This commentary discusses the four ACC/AHA recommendations that differ substantially from those in JNC-7.

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