Publication Date: 2007
Chairpersons: Giuseppe Mancia, Guy De Backer
Table of Contents
- Definition and classification of hypertension
- Total cardiovascular (CV) risk
- Stratification of total CV risk
- Clinical variables that should be used to stratify total CV risk
- Diagnostic evaluation
- Blood pressure measurement
- Ambulatory and home blood pressure measurements
- Diagnostic evaluation: medical history and physical examination
- Laboratory investigations
- Searching for subclinical organ damage
- Evidence of the benefit of antihypertensive treatment
- Initiation of blood pressure lowering therapy
- Goals of treatment
- Lifestyle changes
- Choice of antihypertensive drugs
- Conditions favouring the use of some antihypertensive drugs versus others
- Contra-indications for certain antihypertensive drugs
- Monotherapy versus combination therapy
- Possible combinations between some classes of antihypertensive drugs
- Antihypertensive treatment in special groups
- In the elderly
- In patients with diabetes
- In patients with renal dysfunction
- In patients with cerebrovascular disease
- In patients with coronary heart disease and heart failure
- In patients with atrial fibrillation
- Hypertension in women
- The metabolic syndrome
- Resistant hypertension
- Hypertensive emergencies
- Treatment in associated risk factors
- Patients’ follow-up
- How to improve compliance with blood pressure lowering therapy
