The monograph summarises and systemises the current national and international experience in providing care to patients with arterial hypertension. Classifications and standards for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension are presented. Particular emphasis is placed on drug and non-drug therapy of hypertension, as well as on the peculiarities of treatment approaches to comorbid conditions associated with this disease.

The publication will be useful for cardiologists, general practitioners - family medicine, as well as for students of higher medical schools of postgraduate education and students of medical universities.