ModerateCardiovascularHypertension – diagnosis and initial managementuk-plab-1
A 52-year-old man is found to have clinic blood pressure readings around 155/92 mmHg on three separate occasions. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring confirms an average daytime blood pressure of 146/90 mmHg. He has no target organ damage but a QRISK3 score of 14%. According to NICE, how should this blood pressure be classified and managed?