In this podcast, Professor Eva Gerdts (University of Berben, Bergen, Norway) joins Dr Ruxandra Christodorescu (University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes, Timisoara, Romania) to discuss essential hypertension from the 2024 Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension (https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae178/7741010).