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Recent blood pressure guidelines from the NHF, ACC/AHA, and ESC/ESH present conflicting fundamental recommendations, creating difficult choices for Australian physicians.
Highlights the clinical dilemma faced by Australian physicians due to conflicting recommendations across three major new blood pressure guidelines.
A ustralian doctors have been spoilt for choice by the re- cent availability of 3 new blood pressure guidelines from the Australian National Heart Foundation (NHF), 1 the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), 2 and most recently the European Society of Cardiology/European Society of Hypertension (ESC/ESH). 3However, they have also been confronted by difficult choices because these guidelines do not agree on some fundamentals.
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Harrap et al. (2019) conducted an editorial in Hypertension. Blood pressure guidelines was evaluated. Recent blood pressure guidelines from the NHF, ACC/AHA, and ESC/ESH present conflicting fundamental recommendations, creating difficult choices for Australian physicians.
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