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And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 71. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel. And today we're introducing, obviously, the very hot topic, which is, holy, hypertension

guidelines, holiday edition.

And today we're talking about the newest updates to the, I guess we're going to call it,

JNC 8.1 guidelines, the new 2017 ACC, ACC, ACH, and a number of other organizations guidelines to the update

from J&C7. And so this is something, again, that I know when it came to our facility and

speak to you guys, is that our facility, this was huge news over the last couple weeks when the

guideline came out about, you know, what a changing of practice will be, and as well as, you know, how does it compare to JNC7 in terms of who supports it as well as what the document says.

So I'm excited about getting into it. Dr. Patel, can you lead us in?

Absolutely. Well, first, I did not know how to tackle this because the executive summary, they're calling it a summary, it's alone 114 pages. So thanks to one of our

colleagues here who introduced me to this 25, 28 page document that has like the most important

flow diagrams and the charts to consider, maybe can use it as a pocket guide. So we have a link for

that PDF available as well. But basically, like we introduced the topic,

this seems to be from what the authors of these guidelines are saying, a true update to the

JNC7 guideline that was published in 2003. So the question really is, what was that 2014 article

that was published in JAMA?

And really, that was a panel member report only.

It was not the full JNC8 update.

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