The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) issued new guidelines lowering the diagnostic threshold for determining hypertension from 140/90 to 130/80 mm Hg. The recently released guidelines are the first comprehensive set of guidelines since 2003 (J Am Coll Cardiol 2017 Nov 7. [Epub ahead of print]).
Given some of the confusion that the new guidelines may bring, they are a prime opportunity for the many pharmacists who have expertise in cardiovascular