Guidelines The 2015 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Recommendations for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension Stella S. Daskalopoulou, MD, PhD, a Doreen M. Rabi, MD, MSc, b Kelly B. Zarnke, MD, MSc, c Kaberi Dasgupta, MD, MSc, a Kara Nerenberg, MD, MSc, d Lyne Cloutier, RN, PhD, e Mark Gelfer, MD, f Maxime Lamarre-Cliche, MD, g Alain Milot, MD, MSc, h Peter Bolli, MD, i Donald W. McKay, PhD, j Guy Tremblay, MD, k Donna McLean, RN, NP, PhD, l Sheldon W. Tobe, MD, MSc(HPTE), m Marcel Ruzicka, MD, PhD, n Kevin D. Burns, MD, n Michel Vall  ee, MD, PhD, o G.V. Ramesh Prasad, MBBS, MSc, m Marcel Lebel, MD, p Ross D. Feldman, MD, q Peter Selby, MBBS, MHSc, r Andrew Pipe, CM, MD, s Ernesto L. Schiffrin, MD, PhD, t Philip A. McFarlane, MD, PhD, u Paul Oh, MD, v Robert A. Hegele, MD, w Milan Khara, MBChB, x Thomas W. Wilson, MD, y S. Brian Penner, MD, z Ellen Burgess, MD, aa Robert J. Herman, MD, bb Simon L. Bacon, PhD, cc Simon W. Rabkin, MD, dd Richard E. Gilbert, MD, PhD, ee Tavis S. Campbell, PhD, ff Steven Grover, MD, MPA, gg George Honos, MD, hh Patrice Lindsay, RN, PhD, ii Michael D. Hill, MD, MSc, jj Shelagh B. Coutts, MD, kk Gord Gubitz, MD, ll Norman R.C. Campbell, MD, mm Gordon W. Moe, MD, MSc, nn Jonathan G. Howlett, MD, oo Jean-Martin Boulanger, MD, pp Ally Prebtani, MD, qq Pierre Larochelle, MD, rr Lawrence A. Leiter, MD, ss Charlotte Jones, MD, PhD, tt Richard I. Ogilvie, MD, uu Vincent Woo, MD, vv Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD, ww Luc Trudeau, MD, xx Robert J. Petrella, MD, PhD, yy Swapnil Hiremath, MD, MPH, zz James A. Stone, MD, PhD, aaa Denis Drouin, MD, bbb Kim L. Lavoie, PhD, ccc Pavel Hamet, MD, PhD, ddd George Fodor, MD, PhD, t Jean C. Gr  egoire, MD, eee Anne Fournier, MD, fff Richard Lewanczuk, MD, PhD, l George K. Dresser, MD, PhD, ggg Mukul Sharma, MD, MSc, hhh Debra Reid, PhD, RD, iii Canadian Journal of Cardiology 31 (2015) 549e568 Received for publication January 30, 2015. Accepted February 6, 2015. Corresponding author: Dr Stella S. Daskalopoulou, Department of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, McGill University, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Avenue, C2.101.4, Montreal, Qu ebec H3G 1A4, Canada. Tel.: þ514-934-1934  42295; fax: þ514-934-8564. E-mail: stella.daskalopoulou@mcgill.ca See page 564 for disclosure information. A version of the hypertension recommendations designed for patient and public education has been developed to assist health care practitioners man- aging hypertension. The summary is available electronically (go to http:// www.hypertension.ca or http://www.heartandstroke.ca). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2015.02.016 0828-282X/Ó 2015 Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.