Bader Almustafa
Qatif Primary Health Care, Saudi Arabia
Title: Hypertension guidelines: Global review
Biography
Biography: Bader Almustafa
Abstract
Since the mid-nineties, many professional bodies have issued their guidelines for the management of high blood pressure. In the current era, however, the modern telecommunication has made the dissemination of these guidelines easy and fast. It resulted, however, in creating confusion, where recommendations are conflicting or variable. This review presents the history of hypertension guidelines, worldwide, their agreements and variations, the queries addressed and those which are not.
The hypertension guidelines started as a disease-oriented targeting to control blood pressure, widened to have a more logic by approaching absolute cardiovascular risk, rather. Recently, multiple bodies have issued cardiovascular prevention guidelines combating multiple cardiovascular risk factors. This made the job of any practitioner difficult to follow which mandated a way to simplify the path from detection to control, in real practice. The cardiometabolic risk guideline is a novel approach to fill in this need.
In conclusion, though the disparities are many, all join the same concept. Disparities, however, may leave a lot of confusion among practitioners that need to be considered by guidelines developers. Translational guidelines, however, may abridge it.