No abstract was published with this document — society guidelines, consensus pathways, and scientific statements are typically released without one. See the Key Points and the linked PDF for the full content.
“While the news media says that now half the country is hypertensive, that's not arbitrary at all. It's based on very good data that look at risk. It specifically has as a goal that if [a patient has] greater than 10% 10-year cardiovascular risk, you should be more aggressive with treatment. That may sound obvious, but previous guidelines assumed that, never really defined it and never put it into context. This guideline does that, and it's a very important step forward.”
Whelton et al. (2017) studied this question.