Guidelines

Treatment guidelines provide a valuable tool for guiding individualized patient treatment based on available scientific evidence. Selecting a subject area and a specialism from the options below will provide you with a summary of antihypertensive drug treatment recommendations from three key guidelines:

• 2007 Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension published by The Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
• The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-7) published by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in the USA in 2004
• 2003 World Health Organization (WHO)/International Society of Hypertension (ISH) Statement on Management of Hypertension