UC College of Medicine faculty help shape national guidelines for cardiovascular, stroke care

Eva A. Mistry, MBBS, associate professor in the Department of Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine, served as a co-author of the 2025 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. This comprehensive update to the 2017 guidelines provides evidence-based recommendations for clinicians across specialties and is poised to influence care for millions of patients living with or at risk for hypertension.

“This publication is one of the most important documents from a public health standpoint and is expected to drive care of millions of patients with high blood pressure, as well as healthy people who are at risk of developing high blood pressure. I am immensely honored to co-author this publication along with a highly accomplished, multi-disciplinary group of dedicated experts, who have all donated their time during the last two years towards this monumental effort,” Mistry shared. “There are many important updates in this guideline, such as first-line therapy, guidance on when to start treatment for blood pressure and how to prevent high blood pressure. I am hoping that this will help clinicians across the world, across specialties in detection, evaluation, management, and importantly, prevention of high blood pressure, which is one of the most important chronic diseases and leads to heart attacks, strokes, dementia and other pathologies. The most important work comes next, which is to implement these guidelines in clinical practice for the betterment of the health of all.”