Management of 'Elevated' blood pressure according to the 2024 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines: lack of supportive evidence and high risk of excessive treatment

Affiliations

• ¹ University of Oslo, Institute for Clinical Medicine, and Ullevaal Hospital, Departments of Cardiology and Nephrology, Oslo, Norway.
• ² Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
• ³ Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁴ University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville, Greenville, SC, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
• ⁶ Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁷ University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.