new hypertension guidelines
Two sets of new hypertension guidelines were developed recently, one by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in 2024; the other by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association in 2025 (the ESC guidelines predated the 2025 ACC/AHA guidelines). In the following, I will compare the 2024 ESC guidelines mostly to the 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines (see https://gmodestmedblogs.blogspot.com/2017/11/new-aha-hypertension-guidelines.html ), since the updated 2025 ACC/AHA guidelines added very few new recommendations. ACC/AHA guidelines: see: htn 2025 AHA guidelines JACC2025 in dropbox, or doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc2025.05.007 ESC guidelines: htn 2024 european guidelines HTN2025 in dropbox, or doi/suppl/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.24173. -- here is the list of all of their summary points of "what is new" in the 2025 AHA/ACC guidelines' new and revised recommendations beyond the 2017 AHA/ACC guidelines (these new guidelines are quite l...