Guía clínica europea para hipertensión

European Heart Journal (2007) 28, 1462–1536 doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm236

ESC and ESH Guidelines

2007 Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
The Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Authors/Task Force Members: Giuseppe Mancia, Co-Chairperson (Italy), Guy DeBacker, Co-Chairperson (Belgium), Anna Dominiczak (UK), Renata Cifkova (Czech Republic) Robert Fagard (Belgium), Giuseppe Germano (Italy), Guido Grassi (Italy), Anthony M. Heagerty (UK), Sverre E. Kjeldsen (Norway), Stephane Laurent (France), Krzysztof Narkiewicz (Poland), Luis Ruilope (Spain), Andrzej Rynkiewicz (Poland), Roland E. Schmieder (Germany), Harry A.J. Struijker Boudier (Netherlands),Alberto Zanchetti (Italy)
ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG): Alec Vahanian, Chairperson (France), John Camm (United Kingdom), Raffaele De Caterina (Italy), Veronica Dean (France), Kenneth Dickstein (Norway), Gerasimos Filippatos (Greece), Christian Funck-Brentano (France), Irene Hellemans (Netherlands), Steen Dalby Kristensen (Denmark), Keith McGregor (France), Udo Sechtem (Germany), SigmundSilber (Germany), Michal Tendera (Poland), Petr Widimsky (Czech Republic), Jose Luis Zamorano (Spain) ESH Scientific Council: Sverre E. Kjeldsen, President (Norway), Serap Erdine, Vice-President (Turkey), Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Secretary (Poland), Wolfgang Kiowski, Treasurer (Switzerland), Enrico Agabiti-Rosei (Italy), Ettore Ambrosioni (Italy), Renata Cifkova (Czech Republic), Anna Dominiczak(United Kingdom), Robert Fagard (Belgium), Anthony M. Heagerty, Stephane Laurent (France), Lars H. Lindholm (Sweden), Giuseppe Mancia (Italy), Athanasios Manolis (Greece), Peter M. Nilsson (Sweden), Josep Redon (Spain), Roland E. Schmieder (Germany), Harry A.J. Struijker-Boudier (The Netherlands), Margus Viigimaa (Estonia) Document Reviewers: Gerasimos Filippatos (CPG Review Coordinator) (Greece),Stamatis Adamopoulos (Greece), Enrico Agabiti-Rosei (Italy), Ettore Ambrosioni (Italy), Vicente Bertomeu (Spain), Denis Clement (Belgium), Serap Erdine (Turkey), Csaba Farsang (Hungary), Dan Gaita (Romania), Wolfgang Kiowski (Switzerland), Gregory Lip (UK), Jean-Michel Mallion (France), Athanasios J. Manolis (Greece), Peter M. Nilsson (Sweden), Eoin O’Brien (Ireland), Piotr Ponikowski (Poland), JosepRedon (Spain), Frank Ruschitzka (Switzerland), Juan Tamargo (Spain), Pieter van Zwieten (Netherlands), Margus Viigimaa (Estonia), Bernard Waeber (Switzerland), Bryan Williams (UK), Jose Luis Zamorano (Spain)

The affiliations of Task Force members are listed in the Appendix. Their Disclosure forms are available on the respective society Web Sites. These guidelines also appear in the Journal ofHypertension, doi:10.1097/HJH.0b013e3281fc975a

* Correspondence to Giuseppe Mancia, Clinica Medica, Ospedale San Gerardo, Universita Milano-Bicocca, Via Pergolesi, 33 – 20052 MONZA (Milano), Italy Tel: þ39 039 233 3357; fax: þ39 039 32 22 74, e-mail: giuseppe.mancia@unimib.it * Correspondence to Guy de Backer, Dept. of Public Health, University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium Tel:þ32 9 240 3627; fax: þ32 9 240 4994; e-mail: Guy.DeBacker@ugent.be
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