2023 ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension the Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension: Endorsed by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) and the European Renal Association (ERA)

The year 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the hypertension guidelines of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH), which were published for the first time in 2003, following a proposal by Professor Alberto Zanchetti (Fig. 1). Professor Zanchetti thought that it was time for Europe to express its view on diagnostic and treatment aspects of this crucially important medical condition rather than referring, as in the past, to guidelines issued by the WHO, with or without the ISH or the scientific societies in the USA. He played a fundamental role in these first guidelines as coordinator of the... Mehr ...