In adults without diastolic hypertension (DBP ≥ 90 mm Hg), what is the best way to determine at what systolic blood pressure should treatment be initiated?

There is a need to test the guidelines that are recommended and promoted by influential heart, lung, blood, sleep organizations.

What is the effectiveness of guideline recommendations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care in patients with multimorbidity, including angina, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and osteoporosis, vs. patients without these conditions?

How can guideline recommendations be implemented into community practice in a way that is feasible, usable, relevant, and cost-effective? (examples are use of care management, translation of chronic care model, and EMR based tools)

The development of systematic evidence reviews (SER) that provide the evidence that partner organizations can use to develop an integrated clinical practice guideline for use by primary care providers for the treatment of patients with single and multiple conditions for the primary and secondary prevention of heart, lung, blood, and sleep (heart, lung, blood, sleep) diseases.

Clinical Guidelines depends on good science. Despite this, only 11% of guidelines that reported level of evidence in 2009, had level of evidence A while 48% had level C. Studies have shown that recommendations based on Level of Evidence C (or their equivalence) are significantly less reliable and may be downgraded, reversed or omitted when better evidence is available.
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How can implementation strategies be tested in low and middle income countries for contextually and culturally adapted evidence-based clinical care guidelines with a focus on prevalent non-communicable diseases with large burdens such as sickle cell disease, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, asthma, and COPD?

There is a need for the NHLBI to systematically assess CV guidelines that have public health importance and that can be addressed by pragmatic, government-funded trials.