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Abstract Background The 2018 European Society of Cardiology/European Society of Hypertension (ESC/ESH) guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension and the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guideline for the prevention, detection, evaluation, and management of high blood pressure in adults differ in approach to defining stages of hypertension and recommendations for treatment of high blood pressure. Purpose To contrast the implications of the ESC/ESH versus ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines among the general population in Poland – a country representing a high CVD risk region in Europe. Methods We used data from a representative random sample of 1439 Polish adults aged 40 to 79 from the research program NATPOL 2011. The analysis was weighted in order to reflect the structure of the population in Poland and was stratified by age and gender. We applied the ESC/ESH 10-year SCORE (Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation) and the ACC/AHA ASCVD (atherosclerotic CV disease) risk assessment tools and followed guideline-specific algorithms to detect hypertension and follow recommendations for treatment. Results The overall prevalence of hypertension among Polish adults according to the ACC/AHA guideline was 76.9% (95% CI, 74.7–79.0%) versus 51.8% (95% CI, 49.2–54.4%) according to the ESC/ESH guidelines. Application of the ACC/AHA guideline recommendations would result in antihypertensive drug treatment for 63.0% (95% CI, 60.5–65.5%) of Polish adults compared with 46.2% (95% CI, 43.6–48.7%) based on application of the ESC/ESH guidelines (difference 16.8% (95% CI, 14.9–18.8%), table 1). Table 1 2017 ACC/AHA guideline 2018 ESC/ESH guideline Δ (difference) Hypertension Recommended treatment Hypertension Recommended treatment Hypertension Recommended treatment % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) Age 40–49 (n=391) 63.2 (58.4–68.0) 37.3 (32.6–42.1) 32.0 (27.4–36.6) 21.2 (17.2–25.3) 31.2 (26.6–35.8) 16.1 (12.5–19.8) 50–59 (n=452) 77.7 (73.8–81.5) 61.7 (57.2–66.2) 49.1 (44.5–53.7) 40.0 (35.5–44.6) 28.5 (24.4–32.7) 21.7 (17.9–25.5) 60–69 (n=356) 82.3 (78.3–86.3) 75.3 (70.8–79.8) 62.4 (57.3–67.4) 61.5 (56.5–66.6) 19.9 (15.8–24.1) 13.8 (10.2–17.3) 70–79 (n=231) 90.0 (86.2–93.9) 90.0 (86.2–93.9) 74.5 (68.8–80.1) 76.6 (71.2–82.1) 15.6 (10.9–20.3) 13.4 (9.0–17.8) Gender Male (n=689) 80.4 (77.4–83.4) 67.5 (64.0–71.0) 52.5 (48.8–56.3) 47.2 (43.4–50.9) 27.9 (24.5–31.2) 20.3 (17.3–23.3) Female (n=741) 73.6 (70.4–76.7) 58.8 (55.3–62.4) 51.2 (47.6–54.8) 45.2 (41.6–48.8) 22.4 (19.4–25.4) 13.6 (11.2–16.1) Conclusions Application of the ACC/AHA guideline would result in a considerable increase in the prevalence and antihypertensive drug treatment of hypertension in Polish adults compared with application of the ESC/ESH guidelines.
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