Treatment of Essential Hypertension: Focus on Patient Characteristics
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Essential hypertension rarely causes symptoms and the prevalence in the US continues to rise even as data emerges regarding the benefit of lower treatment targets for high risk patients. In this introductory program, Dr. Matt Sorrentino discusses the newly recommended categories for blood pressure, assesses how risk plays a major role in hypertension treatment and cites updated recommendations for blood pressure management in both low and high risk patients.
Educational Objectives:
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
1. Identify the newly recommended categories of blood pressure and cite the rationale for the new classification of hypertension.
2. Recognize how risk categories assist in decision making on hypertension treatment.
3. Outline basic essential hypertension pathophysiology and how it applies in medication selection for blood pressure control.
4. Cite recommendations for blood pressure management in low risk and high risk patients.
Estimated time to complete this activity is 1 hour.
This activity is jointly provided by Your CE Source and eMedEd.
