[Croatian guidelines for management of arterial hypertension in 1999: review after one year].

The guidelines for the treatment of arterial hypertension, set by the Croatian Society of Hypertension in April 1999, were largely concordant with the recommendations of JNC-VI (1997) and WHO-ISH (1999). After one year these guidelines are not only valid but even reinforced by several new lines of evidence from large prospective clinical trials.