Table 1 Brief comparison of the 2018 Korean Hypertension guidelines and 2013 Korean Hypertension guidelines

Definition of hypertension

SBP ≥140 mmHg or DBP ≥90 mmHg

SBP ≥140 mmHg or DBP ≥90 mmHg

Recommended pharmacologic treatment

- General population: SBP ≥140 mmHg or DBP ≥90 mmHg

- DM, CKD, CVD: SBP ≥130 mmHg or DBP ≥80 mmHg

- Presence ≥3 of CVD risk factors or subclinical organ damage: SBP ≥130 mmHg or DBP ≥80 mmHg

- General population: SBP ≥140 mmHg and DBP ≥90 mmHg

- DM, CKD, CVD: SBP ≥130 mmHg or DBP ≥80 mmHg

Target BP goal

- General population: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg

- DM without CVD: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 85 mmHg

- DM with CVD: SBP < 130 mmHg and DBP < 80 mmHg

- Stroke: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg

- Presence ≥3 risk factors: SBP < 130 mmHg and DBP < 80 mmHg

- CVD: SBP < 130 mmHg and DBP < 80 mmHg

- CKD without albuminuria: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg

- CKD with albuminuria: SBP < 130 mmHg and DBP < 80 mmHg

- Elderly (≥65 years of age without DM or CKD): SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg

- General population: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg

- DM: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 85 mmHg

- Stroke: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg

- CAD: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg

- CKD without albuminuria: SBP < 140 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg

- CKD with albuminuria: SBP < 130 mmHg and DBP < 80 mmHg

- Elderly (≥65 years of age without DM or CKD): SBP < 150 mmHg and DBP < 90 mmHg