Guidelines for managing raised blood pressure

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Abstract
This convincing evidence of a large and rapid relative benefit from treatment has led national and international bodies to recommend that a substantial proportion of adults be considered for long term drug treatment. In 1993 at least one international and three national guidelines on managing raised blood pressure were published.2 3 4 5 All were based on the same data, yet when Fahey and Peters (p 93) applied the various guidelines to a typical population of patients treated for hypertension in British general practice, only about a third of the patients met the treatment criteria of all four guidelines.6