Key result
Evolving diagnostic criteria and behavior change approaches reshape nonpharmacologic management of essential hypertension.
Why the study?
Changes in diagnostic criteria for essential hypertension and new behavior change approaches raise questions about the role of nonpharmacologic treatments in managing high blood pressure.
Highlights the evolving role of behavior change and nonpharmacologic approaches in managing essential hypertension.
Changes in the diagnostic criteria for essential hypertension and the development of effective behavior change approaches to its treatment raise new issues concerning the place of nonpharmacologic approaches in the management of high blood pressure.
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W. Stewart Agras (1982) studied this question. Behavior change approaches and evolving diagnostic criteria raise new issues regarding the role of nonpharmacologic interventions in the management of essential hypertension.
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