Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of... : Journal of Hypertension (original) (raw)

GUIDELINES

A Statement by the American Society of Hypertension and the International Society of Hypertension

Weber, Michael A.a; Schiffrin, Ernesto L.b; White, William B.c; Mann, Samueld; Lindholm, Lars H.e; Kenerson, John G.f; Flack, John M.g; Carter, Barry L.h; Materson, Barry J.i; Ram, C. Venkata S.j; Cohen, Debbie L.k; Cadet, Jean-Claudel; Jean-Charles, Roger R.m; Taler, Sandran; Kountz, Davido; Townsend, Raymondp; Chalmers, Johnq; Ramirez, Agustin J.r; Bakris, George L.s; Wang, Jiguangt; Schutte, Aletta E.u; Bisognano, John D.v; Touyz, Rhian M.w; Sica, Dominicx; Harrap, Stephen B.y

aState University of New York, Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York, USA

bDepartment of Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

cCalhoun Cardiology Center, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut

dDepartment of Medicine, Weil Cornell College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

eDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

fCardiovascular Associates, Virginia Beach, Virginia

gDepartment of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

hDepartment of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

iDepartment of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

jMediCiti Institutions, Hyderabad, India

kDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

lState University School of Medicine

mHypertension Center of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

nDepartment of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

oJersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, New Jersey

pHypertension Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

qGeorge Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

rArterial Hypertension and Metabolic Unit, University Hospital, Favaloro Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina

sASH Comprehensive Hypertension Center, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

tThe Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

uHypertension in Africa Research Team, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

vDepartment of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA

wInstitute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, UK

xVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

yDepartment of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Correspondence to Michael A. Weber, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate College of Medicine, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 97, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA. Tel: +1 714 815 7430; e-mail: [email protected]

Received 31 October, 2013

Accepted 31 October, 2013