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Editorial

New 2017 American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology guideline for hypertension in the adults: major paradigm shifts, but will they help to fight against the hypertension disease burden?

Michel BurnierService of Nephrology and Hypertension, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland; Correspondence[email protected]
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Suzanne OparilVascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA;
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Krzysztof NarkiewiczDepartment of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland;
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Sverre E. KjeldsenDepartment of Cardiology, University of Oslo, Ullevaal Hospital, OsloNorway
Pages 62-65 | Received 17 Jan 2018, Accepted 17 Jan 2018, Published online: 15 Feb 2018

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