Blood pressure targets in primary care: A balancing act between the certainty of evidence and the messier reality of everyday practice

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 352, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Muth, Christiane ^a   Van Den Akker, Marjan ^b,c   Glasziou, Paul P ^d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DOSE INTENSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MORBIDITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; STROKE;

EID: 84977464826     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i813     Document Type: Editorial

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