Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Reading Between the Guidelines: Perioperative Implications of the 2025 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Hypertension Update
Authors' conclusion
Yet these updates have limited direct application to the perioperative setting.
Study context
- Population
- Perioperative patients with hypertension (implications of the 2025 AHA/American College of Cardiology Hypertension Guideline)
- Outcome
- Key updates of the 2025 Hypertension Guideline and perioperative implications
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Notable changes: adoption of the PREVENT CVD risk calculator, revised criteria for initiating pharmacotherapy, lower treated BP targets
- Updates have limited direct application to the perioperative setting
- Recommendations for surgical patients largely unchanged, still dependent on expert opinion and low-certainty evidence
- Recent trials show no benefit from preoperative BP optimization in noncardiac surgery
Original publication
Reading Between the Guidelines: Perioperative Implications of the 2025 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Hypertension Update. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. Published 13 May 2026. doi:10.
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