This report of the 1992 consensus conference of the CHS, held in Montreal, updates the report on the diagnosis of mild hypertension as well as the subsequent reports on the pharmacologic treatment of hypertension, hypertension in elderly patients and diabetes and hypertension.

1. Introduction (vol. 149, no. 3, pp 289-293)
   
2. Diagnosis of hypertension in adults (vol. 149, no. 4, pp 409-418)
   
3. Pharmacologic treatment of essential hypertension (vol. 149, no. 5, pp 575-584)
   
4. Hypertension in the elderly (vol. 149, no. 6, pp 815-820)
   
5. Hypertension and diabetes (vol. 149, no. 6, pp 821-826)