[New guidelines for hypertension management in 2013].

The 2013 guidelines for arterial hypertension have just been released by the European Societies of Cardiology and Hypertension. As already discussed in earlier versions, the decision to treat must be based on the assessment of the cardiovascular risk. The value of out-of-the office blood pressure measurements to confirm the diagnosis of hypertension is underlined and the authors stress the need for a close follow up of non pharmacological therapeutic measures. A novelty, however, consists in the simplification of the blood pressure target under treatment, which must be < 140/90 mmHg in the vast majority of patients, except for octogenerians whose systolic blood pressure target should be < 150 mmHg. For resistant hypertension, renal denervation and carotid baroreceptor stimulation are proposed as new invasive modes of therapy; their clinical values, however, remain to be confirmed.