{"title":"Recent changes in the treatment of hypertension","authors":"Bridget Bradley, L. Carlson","doi":"10.9740/MHC.N197964","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Hypertension affects a large portion of the United States' population and is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular events. A variety of treatment guidelines exist including the American Diabetes Association, European Society of Hypertension/European Society of Cardiology and the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure guidelines. The following is a summary of these guidelines regarding the effective treatment of hypertension.","PeriodicalId":18691,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Clinician","volume":"64 1","pages":"143-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mental Health Clinician","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.9740/MHC.N197964","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Hypertension affects a large portion of the United States' population and is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular events. A variety of treatment guidelines exist including the American Diabetes Association, European Society of Hypertension/European Society of Cardiology and the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure guidelines. The following is a summary of these guidelines regarding the effective treatment of hypertension.