Open AccessRecently Published Hypertension Guidelines of the JNC 8 Panelists, the American Society of Hypertension/International Society of Hypertension and Other Major Organizations: Introduction to a Focus Issue of The Journal of Clinical Hypertension
Author(s) -
Weber Michael A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of clinical hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1751-7176
pISSN - 1524-6175
DOI - 10.1111/jch.12308
Subject(s) - medicine , guideline , round table , clinical practice , hypertension treatment , alternative medicine , scope (computer science) , family medicine , blood pressure , pathology , session (web analytics) , world wide web , computer science , programming language
This issue of The Journal of Clinical Hypertension focuses on recent hypertension guidelines and how they might affect the clinical practice of hypertension. The original stimulus for this special issue of the Journal was the anticipated arrival of the JNC 8 report about 2 years ago, but due to the longer-than-expected time to produce that document it appeared recently as one of 4 sets of guidelines on hypertension published within the past few months. Appropriately, most of the commentaries in this issue about JNC 8 and the other guidelines represent opinions by experts in the field who themselves have been contributors to hypertension guidelines, either in the United States or elsewhere.