The 2003 JNC 7 Report recommended the same antihypertensive medications for adults of all ages.3 (JNC 7 is the most recent report from the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.)
JNC 7 recommends thiazide diuretics for first-line treatment of hypertension, and recommends other drugs—including beta-blockers, calcium-channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs)—for first-line therapy if a thiazide is contraindicated, or in combination with thiazides for higher initial blood pressure.