10 prevention takeaways from the high blood pressure guideline

Key takeaways:

The American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and other societies released a new blood pressure guideline.

This Commentary focuses on the key recommendations for prevention of hypertension.

The field of cardiovascular disease prevention has made great strides in the 8 years since publication of the last U.S. blood pressure guideline.

These advances have major implications for evaluation and management of hypertension — the most prevalent modifiable CVD risk factor.

The newly released 2025 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Multisociety Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults integrates the latest evidence. In this Commentary, we highlight 10 key points that can be applied