Office blood pressure categories: non-elevated, elevated, hypertension (ESC 2024) esc2024_office_bp@1.0
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Draft · pending review draft — pending clinical and coding review
- Status
- draft — pending clinical and coding review (draft — requires clinical and coding review)
- Condition
- Hypertension
- Tier
- 1
- Use here
- alternative beside blood_pressure: Disagrees with the primary (nhlbi_bp_categories: 130/80 vs 140/90); shown only as 'another published definition gives'.
- Edition
- 2024 (2024)
- Second source
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 2025 · disagrees: US categories start hypertension at 130/80; ESC at 140/90. The ESH 2023 guideline could not be opened (HTTP 402).
- Contested
- yes: Differs from AHA/ACC (hypertension from 130/80; elevated defined by systolic 120-129 only).
European Society of Cardiology, 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension
esc2024_office_bp@1.0The 2024 Guidelines continue to define hypertension as office systolic BP of ≥140 mmHg or diastolic BP of ≥90 mmHg. Elevated BP is defined as an office systolic BP of 120–139 mmHg or diastolic BP of 70–89 mmHg.
2024 (2024) · Section 5.1, Table 5 (office BP) · source
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