2020 International Society of Hypertension Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines

Abstract

To align with its mission to reduce the global burden of raised blood pressure (BP), the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) has developed worldwide practice guidelines for the management of hypertension in adults, aged 18 years and older. The ISH Guidelines Committee extracted evidence-based content presented in recently published extensively reviewed guidelines and tailored and standards of care in a practical format that is easy-to-use particularly in low, but also in high resource settings – by clinicians, but also nurses and community health workers, as appropriate.
\nAlthough distinction between low and high resource settings often refers to high (HIC) and low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), it is well established that in HIC there are areas with low resource settings, and vice versa. Herein optimal care refers to evidence-based standard of care articulated in recent guidelines1,2 and summarized here, whereas standards recognize that
\nstandards would not always be possible. Hence essential standards refer to minimum standards of care. To allow specification of essential standards of care for low resource settings, the Committee was often confronted with the limitation or absence in clinical evidence, and thus applied expert opinion.

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Affiliated Institutions

• Favaloro Foundation AR
• The University of Melbourne AU
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine GB
• The George Institute for Global Health AU
• University of Manchester GB
• Maastricht University NL
• University College London GB
• Manchester Academic Health Science Centre GB
• North-West University ZA
• Centre for Chronic Disease Control IN
• Royal Perth Hospital AU
• University of British Columbia CA
• Boston University US
• The University of Western Australia AU
• UNSW Sydney AU
• Public Health Foundation of India IN
• University of Bologna IT
• UCL Biomedical Research Centre GB
• University of Leicester GB
• Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes CA
• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust GB
• Imperial College London GB
• Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute AU
• Federation University AU
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens GR

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