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. 2019 Sep 28;12(6):771–777. doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfz126

FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3

Different thresholds to initiate antihypertensive drug therapy and therapeutic targets in CKD patients. (A) The 2012 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Blood Pressure in Chronic Kidney Disease [1]. (B) The 2017 ACC/AHA guideline [2]. (C) The 2018 ESC/ESH guidelines [3]. Please note that thresholds and therapeutic targets differ between guidelines and the curious situation for the discrepant thresholds and therapeutic targets recommended by the 2018 ESC/ESH guidelines, especially for the elderly. Please note that the 2012 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Blood Pressure in Chronic Kidney Disease and the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline provide no range of target values, so there is no lower limit for the recommended systolic or diastolic BP. Red colouring of the columns represents above-threshold BP. Blue colour represents within-target BP. Individual numerical values in red represent the highest values of the three guidelines for the same concept (systolic or diastolic BP), in orange represent intermediate values and in green represent the lowest values of the three guidelines for the same concept. For the KDIGO and ACC/AHA guidelines, the same values are thresholds and targets. For the ESC-ESH guidelines, thresholds and targets do not match.