He was recently invited by JAMA Internal Medicine to comment on recent hypertension research. national hypertension treatment guidelines. Moran is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded project comparing the effectiveness and costs of U.S. To explain what the new guidelines mean for patients and clinicians, we talked with Andrew Moran, MD, an internist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The new guidelines lower the threshold in all patients to 130/80, and the change has prompted debate among physicians in the medical literature and in the mass media.
Overnight, some 30 million more Americans had high blood pressure.įor decades, high blood pressure in most patients was defined as 140/90 mmHg or higher (the first number measures systolic blood pressure, when the heart contracts the second measures diastolic pressure, when the heart relaxes). Last November, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association issued the first new set of hypertension treatment guidelines since 2003.
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