Payal Kohli, MD, is an attending cardiologist for Kaiser Permanente in Denver, Colorado.

	The updates from the ACC, AHA, and 9 other professional organizations to the hypertension guidelines were eagerly anticipated. The slides that follow offer a user-friendly summary.

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Click through our topline review of the key takeaways from this long-awaited update.  

2017 ACC/AHA Hypertension Guidelines: The Takeaways