Updated Hypertension Guidelines from the AHA/ACC

Dates and Times

Start: 2/11/2026 8:00 AM
End: 2/11/2026 9:00 AM

Objectives

1) Apply 2025 ACC guidelines to accurately diagnose hypertension, incorporating standardized office measurement, home BP monitoring, and ambulatory BP data to reduce misclassification and overtreatment.

2) Apply risk-based treatment thresholds and BP targets to individual patients commonly seen in internal medicine practice, including older adults and those with diabetes, CKD, or established cardiovascular disease.

3) Implement lifestyle and systems-based strategies to improve blood pressure control, adherence, and equity in routine outpatient care.

4) Intensify antihypertensive therapy, including appropriate first-line agents, early combination therapy, and management of resistant hypertension.5) Understand the role of renal denervation for resistant hypertension, not addressed in previous guidelines.

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Accreditation

The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ^™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Maintenance of Certification

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.