Jordana Cohen, MD, MSCE, Deputy Director and Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, served as a writing committee member for the 2025 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. Her contributions culminated in an interview with NPR discussing the new guidelines and exciting new advances in the field of clinical hypertension research.
This marks the first national hypertension guideline since 2017 and introduces several major updates, including the adoption of the new PREVENT cardiovascular risk equation for risk stratification to guide therapy initiation, recommendations to screen for primary aldosteronism much earlier in the course of hypertension, a stronger emphasis on home blood pressure monitoring (supported with team-based care), and a push to treat with single-pill combinations.