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the better option? • Prevention? or • Disease/disability management? In the long-term, prevention is decidedly superior to coping with disease, hospitalizations, interventional and surgical therapies, disability, and untimely death. Thus, opting for a dialysis free or organ transplant free life should be a no brainer! And we should not expose patients to such eventualities. Quality of life is best ‘acquired’ by prevention of hypertension-mediated diseases. While the American and European guidelines differ in the definition of hypertension, the proposed therapeutic BP goal is the same. By creating pathways to achieve lower BP goals irrespective of how hypertension is defined, India stands to benefit the most from the latest hypertension guidelines.