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NICE guideline: the diagnosis and management of hypertension
Author(s) -
Corr Laura
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
trends in urology and men's health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2044-3749
pISSN - 2044-3730
DOI - 10.1002/tre.719
Subject(s) - guideline , nice , blood pressure , medicine , control (management) , history , intensive care medicine , computer science , pathology , artificial intelligence , programming language
New targets for blood pressure control have sparked controversy not just because of the increase in the numbers of people defined as hypertensive but also because different interpretations of the same data seemed to have been reached in the UK, Europe and the USA. Here the author examines the data behind the guideline decisions to try to make sense of the differences.