# 2024 ESC guidelines on elevated blood pressure and hypertension

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Also called: 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension

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## In plain language

The 2024 guideline from the European Society of Cardiology on elevated blood pressure and hypertension. It updates the society's 2018 guideline, which it issued with the European Society of Hypertension. The only text that could be read was the ESC's own short summary of key messages. Two claims drawn from that summary, on the new elevated-blood-pressure category and on the treatment target, are shown on the pages for blood pressure and for lowering blood pressure to a target. The full guideline was not read.

## Technical summary

Eur Heart J 2024;45(38):3912-4018. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehae178. PMID 39210715. Published 30 August 2024 (ESC page); the PubMed issue date is 2024-10-07. PubMed type: Practice Guideline, with no abstract. Two corrections are listed in PubMed (doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf031 and doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf659) and their text was not read. This page links no record for the journal or the society, so it has no published\_in or authored\_by link. The two claims drawn from the summary have the subjects core:blood-pressure and cardio:bp-lowering-to-target, so they appear on those pages and not on this one.

## Provenance

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Last substantive edit: 2026-10-11
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