Current recommendations from international guidelines strongly emphasise the need to achieve target BP levels as promptly as possible in all hypertensive patients [1, 12, 13] . These thresholds, however, may vary depending on the individual patient's total (or global) CV risk. It is this risk profile, therefore, that should influence the assessment of what would constitute an acceptable target BP, how aggressively it will be pursued and the choice among different classes and dosages of

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... tensive medications used to achieve this goal. When treating low-risk hypertensive patients, the aim should be to reduce the systolic BP value to <140 mmHg and the diastolic BP value to <90 mmHg.