Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension in the 2017 ACC/AHA Guidelines and in the Real World

John P A Ioannidis

doi:10.1001/jama.2017.19672

Abstract

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In this Viewpoint, John Ioannidis discusses implications of the 2017 hypertension guidelines for real-world management of blood pressure (BP), including labeling healthy people as having disease and possible adverse treatment effects at lower BP treatment targets..

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