At 5:19 am +1000 27/4/06, Duncan Guy wrote:
How many hypertensives have a target BP written in the notes? How objective
is the evidence?
David de Bhál
www.v-practice.com
Dont need to define a target BP - the evidence
is clear and everyone should know the target is
115/80 no matter what age, size or gender,
Duncan Guy
Cardiologist
Targets tend to reflect the bias of the players
in the game with the most to benefit who have
spent the most money making their biased
viewpoint.
Please show me new evidence of treatment of
systolic hypertension in elderly patients. My
understanding to date of the evidence from the
SHEP study reflects my real world experience -
too low has significant morbidity (eg from falls).
Ian.
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