2025 High Blood Pressure Guideline
Published: August 14, 2025
- This guideline replaces the 2017 ACC/AHA High Blood Pressure Guideline, incorporating updated recommendations based on the latest clinical evidence through early 2025.
- This guideline serves as a comprehensive, evidence-based resource for clinicians diagnosing and managing adults with high blood pressure, offering practical strategies to improve real-world control through accurate measurement and standardized treatment protocols across clinical care settings.
- Key updates include the use of PREVENT risk equations to guide high blood pressure treatment decisions, new recommendations for specific groups, including people with chronic kidney disease, individuals who are pregnant, and those with resistant hypertension, and an emphasis on team-based care, home monitoring, and single-pill combinations.
Read the full Guideline in Circulation
Read the full Guideline in Hypertension
2025 High Blood Pressure Guideline
Authors Daniel W. Jones, MD, FAHA, Chair; Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, Vice Chair; Sandra J. Taler, MD, FAHA, Vice Chair; announce the publication of the new guideline and discuss some of the new evidence informing this update, a few major changes, and key takehome messages.
Supporting Materials
- Top Things to Know: 2025 High BP Guideline
- 2025 High Blood Pressure Guideline Slide Set (PPTX)
- News Release: New high blood pressure guideline emphasizes prevention, early treatment to reduce CVD
Journal Resources
- AHA Journals High Blood Pressure Guideline page
- Editorial: The Hypertension Editors' View of the 2025 Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults
- Commentary: Implementing the 2025 Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: How to Translate Team-Based Care of Hypertension to the Real World
- Commentary: Implementing the 2025 Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: Leveraging Evidence to Push the Boundaries of Clinical Care
- Commentary: Implementing the PREVENT Equations in The 2025 Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults
- Commentary: A trans-Atlantic perspective on the 2025 U.S. Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults
Clinical Update Slides & Infographics
- 2025 High Blood Pressure Clinical Update Slide Set
Download 2025 High Blood Pressure Clinical Update Slide Set (PPTX) - 2025 High Blood Pressure Infographic
Download 2025 High Blood Pressure Infographic (PDF)
Recommended Reading
- 2019 CVD Primary Prevention Guideline
- 2024 Renal Denervation for the Treatment of Hypertension
- 2023 Implementation Strategies to Improve Blood Pressure Control in the United States
- 2023 Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Health: A Presidential Advisory From the AHA
- 2022 Life's Essential Eight: Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular Health Construct
- 2021 Medication Adherence and Blood Pressure Control
- 2021 Hypertension in Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Blood Pressure Goals, and Pharmacotherapy
- 2020 Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring at Home
- 2019 Measurement of Blood Pressure in Humans
- 2019 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With High Blood Pressure
- 2018 Resistant Hypertension: Detection, Evaluation, and Management
Related Resources
- Hub - 2025 High Blood Pressure Guideline - Hypertension
- Hub - 2025 High Blood Pressure Guideline - Circulation
- Key Patient Messages: 2025 High Blood Pressure Guideline
- Pocket Guide: Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults
- PREVENT™ Risk Calculator
- Recent Guidelines and Statements