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BACKGROUND The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) 2017 guidance for the prevention, detection, evaluation, and management of high blood pressure in adults defines hypertension (HTN) as a systolic blood pressure (SBP) greater than 120 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) greater than 80 mm Hg. The prevalence of HTN worldwide is 30% to 45%, and a strong association between HTN and clinical morbidity and mortality, particularly cardiovascular, has been established. Hypertensive crisis (HTN-C) is an acute complication of HTN defined as a severe increase in blood pressure to more than 180/120 mm Hg and can be broken further into 2 subcategories: hypertensive emergency (HTN-E) and hypertensive urgency (HTN-U) based on the presence or absence of end-organ damage, respectively. 2 HTN-E, if left untreated, is associated with greater than 79% 1-year mortality and a median survival of 10.4 months. 1 Given the multitude of pharmacologic
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- Author
- Sarah S. Harlan; Julie E. Farrar
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)