New Blood Pressure Guidelines Pose Difficult Choices for Australian Physicians

Circ Res. 2019 Mar 29;124(7):975-977. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.314637.

Authors

Stephen B Harrap¹, Thomas Lung², John Chalmers³

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Australia (S.B.H.).
² the Health Economics and Process Evaluation Program (T.L.).
³ the Professorial Unit (J.C.), The George Institute for Global Health, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia.

PMID: 30920933
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.314637

No abstract available

Keywords: aging; blood pressure; hypertension; incidence; population.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Antihypertensive Agents / adverse effects
Antihypertensive Agents / therapeutic use*
Australia / epidemiology
Blood Pressure / drug effects*
Clinical Decision-Making
Consensus
Humans
Hypertension / diagnosis
Hypertension / epidemiology
Hypertension / physiopathology
Hypertension / therapy*
Practice Guidelines as Topic*
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards*
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Risk Reduction Behavior*
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Antihypertensive Agents