2020 International Society of Hypertension Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines

Context and Purpose of This Guideline of Remit align with its mission to reduce the global burden of raised pressure (BP), the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) has developed worldwide practice guidelines for the of hypertension in adults, aged 18 years and. ISH Guidelines Committee extracted evidence-based presented in recently published extensively reviewed and tailored and standards care in a practical format that is easy-to-use particularly low, but also in high resource settings – by clinicians, but nurses and community health workers, as appropriate. distinction between low and high resource settings refers to high (HIC) and low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), it is well established that in HIC there are areas low resource settings, and vice versa. optimal care refers to evidence-based standard of articulated in recent guidelines1, 2 and summarized here, standards recognize that would not always be possible. Hence essential standards refer to minimum standards of care. To allow specification of essential standards of care for low resource settings, Committee was often confronted with the limitation or in clinical evidence, and thus applied expert opinion