Are the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology High Blood Pressure Guidelines Fit for Global Purpose?: Thoughts From the International Society of Hypertension

Affiliations

• ¹ From the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit, Imperial College London, United Kingdom (N.R.P.) n.poulter@imperial.ac.uk.
• ² Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Adventist University of the Philippines and Manila Doctors' Hospital (R.C.).
• ³ Faculty of Science and Technology, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria (F.J.C.).
• ⁴ Dobney Hypertension Centre, University of Western Australia-Royal Perth Hospital (M.P.S.).
• ⁵ Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), SAMRC Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa (A.E.S.).
• ⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, United Kingdom (M.T.).
• ⁷ Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (R.M.T.).
• ⁸ Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China (J.-G.W.).