Expert Urges Providers to Implement New Hypertension Guidelines

Many guidelines take four to six years to be understood and implemented, but at the Annual Conference of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, Thiruvinvamalai S. Dharmarajan, MD, cautioned against any further delay in implementing the 2017 Hypertension Clinical Practice Guidelines, which recommend lower blood pressure targets and more intensive treatment for most patients with hypertension.