{"id":4019,"date":"2017-10-17T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:06:26","slug":"new-guidelines-for-high-blood-pressure-will-effect-millions-uvas-carey-co-chaired-guidelines-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/2017\/10\/17\/new-guidelines-for-high-blood-pressure-will-effect-millions-uvas-carey-co-chaired-guidelines-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Endo&#8217;s Robert Carey Played Leading Role in New National Guidelines for Hypertension That Will Impact Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/\">American Heart Association<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acc.org\/\">American College of Cardiology<\/a>\u00a0recently released revised national guidelines for hypertension that are likely to effect the way millions of patients are diagnosed and treated for the disease.\u00a0UVA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/endocrinology-metabolism\/research\/endocrine-labs\/robert-carey\/\">Robert Carey, MD<\/a>, Professor Emeritus of Medicine in DOM\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/endocrinology-metabolism\/\">Division of Endocrinology<\/a>, served as vice chair\u00a0of the joint AHA-ACC committee that developed the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The new guidelines were the subject of a front-page article in the New York Times, published the day the guidelines were released,\u00a0which quotes Dr. Carey in exploring the likely impact of the revised definition for high blood pressure. \u201cThe numbers are scary,\u201d said Dr. Carey. (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/13\/health\/blood-pressure-treatment-guidelines.html\">Under New Guidelines, Millions More Americans Will Need to Lower Blood Pressure<\/a>,\u201d Gina Kolata, p. A1, Nov. 13, 2017).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/medicinematters\/uvasomrestriction\/public\/2017\/11\/17\/new-guidelines-for-high-blood-pressure-released-by-aha-and-acc\/\"><em><strong>More&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0American Heart Association\u00a0and the\u00a0American College of Cardiology\u00a0recently released revised national guidelines for hypertension that are likely to effect the way millions of patients are diagnosed and treated for the disease.\u00a0UVA\u2019s\u00a0Robert Carey, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine in DOM\u2019s\u00a0Division of Endocrinology, served as vice chair\u00a0of the joint AHA-ACC committee that developed the new guidelines. 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