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WHO guideline for the pharmacological treatment of hypertension in adults (2021)

The 2021 World Health Organization guideline on when to start blood pressure medicine in adults, which medicines to start with, which targets to aim for and who can provide the care.

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Overview

Technical summary

Published 24 August 2021 (WHO publication page), ISBN 978-92-4-003398-6 (electronic version), licence CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. The publication page gives 48 pages and the PDF has 61, which this cluster did not resolve. WHO says the recommendations target adult, non-pregnant patients who were appropriately diagnosed with hypertension and counselled about lifestyle changes, and that it graded the evidence with the GRADE approach. This atlas records recommendations 1, 4, 5, 6 and 8, each statement with its own strength label. Recommendations 2, 3 and 7 were not read. Whether a later WHO edition replaces this guideline was not checked.

About this guideline

Published
2021-08-24
Status
Not checked for a newer edition

Source

Document
Guideline for the pharmacological treatment of hypertension in adults (World Health Organization, 2021)
Publisher
World Health Organization
Edition note
Two snapshots of one edition, fetched on 2026-10-11: the WHO publication page, and the English PDF through the IRIS REST bitstream (843539 bytes, 61 pages counted from the file). The publication page states 48 pages. This cluster did not resolve the difference. A separate WHO summary edition exists and was not fetched.

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Record details

Record id
cardio:pub-who-2021-hypertension-pharmacological
Content hash
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