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.
- Publication
- In this atlas
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.
Bibliographic identity
- Type
- Guideline
- Source
- Guideline for the pharmacological treatment of hypertension in adults (World Health Organization, 2021)
- Edition
- 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.
- Publisher
- World Health Organization
- Published
- 2021-08-24
Record details
- Record id
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