The National Heart Foundation of Australia has this week released Guideline for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in adults 2016. There are several changes since the last update in 2010, including both a primary and secondary prevention focus "in the context of an ageing population with increasing complexities", and one area of change is a new lower pressure target of 120mmHg in selected high cardiovascular risk populations.
Brett Montgomery of the University of Western Australia has written an explanatory piece in The Conversation, Blood pressure targets – what does the new guideline say and how low should you go? Here, he explains the evidence behind the new target and why it's not for everyone.
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