{"id":1241,"date":"2026-05-05T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:18:39","slug":"hypertension-management-in-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Hypertension Management in Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the release of national guidelines on the management of hypertension in adults, treatment strategies emphasize the use of combination therapy with maximally tolerated doses of first-line agents. These include thiazide diuretics, long-acting dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers such as amlodipine and nifedipine, and either angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers in nonpregnant adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2846686?guestAccessKey=168772bb-d814-46b7-a2fe-ee86096f467b&amp;utm_source=fbpage&amp;utm_medium=social_jama&amp;utm_term=20386566986&amp;utm_campaign=article_alert&amp;linkId=935688228\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2846686?guestAccessKey=168772bb-d814-46b7-a2fe-ee86096f467b&amp;utm_source=fbpage&amp;utm_medium=social_jama&amp;utm_term=20386566986&amp;utm_campaign=article_alert&amp;linkId=935688228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the release of national guidelines on the management of hypertension in adults, treatment strategies emphasize the use of combination therapy with maximally tolerated doses of first-line agents. These include thiazide diuretics, long-acting dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers such as amlodipine and nifedipine, and either angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers in nonpregnant adults. Link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiology","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}