Initial combination treatment in the 2018 ESC/ESH hypertension guidelines

Özet

The most important novelty of the 2018 Hypertension Guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Society of Hypertension (ESC/ESH) (1) is the decision to abandon the step-care treatment approach, i.e., initial monotherapyfollowed by the sequential addition of one, two, or more antihypertensive agents, as the most important treatment strategy to lower elevated blood pressure (BP) and achieve BP control