Reviewed, New-added recommendations were original, new recommendations that were not in the 2014 VA/DoD HTN CPG. Reviewed, New-replaced recommendations were in the previous version of the guideline, but were modified to align with the updated review of the evidence. These recommendations could have also included clinically significant changes to the previous version. Recommendations categorized as Reviewed, Not changed were carried forward from the previous version of the CPG unchanged. The Reviewed, Not Changed category was used for recommendations carried forward to the updated CPG with review of the evidence and where no changes were deemed necessary to the recommendation language. For recommendations carried forward to the updated CPG with review of the evidence and slightly modified wording, the Reviewed, Amended recommendation category was used. This allowed for the wording of the recommendation to reflect GRADE methodology as well as for any other non- substantive (i.e., not clinically meaningful) language changes deemed necessary. The evidence used to support these recommendations was carried forward from the previous version of the CPG and/or was identified in the evidence review for the update. Recommendations could have also been designated Reviewed, Deleted. These were recommendations from the previous version of the CPG that were not brought forward to the updated guideline after review of the evidence. This occurred if the evidence supporting the recommendations was out of date, to the extent that there was no longer any basis to recommend a particular course of care and/or new evidence suggests a shift in care, rendering recommendations in the previous version of the guideline obsolete. c. Categorizing Recommendations without an Updated Review of the Evidence There were also cases in which it was necessary to carry forward recommendations from the previous version of the CPG without an updated SR of the evidence. 