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Relieving the pressure: new Australian hypertension guideline
Author(s) -
Jennings Garry LR
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja16.00475
Subject(s) - library science , guideline , citation , gerontology , history , medicine , political science , law , computer science
j 18 Ju ly 2 0 16 Smajor risk factor for premature death and disability from cardiovascular disease in Australia and globally, practitioners need a practical, contemporary and localised guide to best practice. Most countries and their hypertension societies publish their own guidelines. However, these differ for a number of reasons. The data available at the particular time of publication vary. Experts interpret these data differently. To varying extents, guideline development is subject to vested interests, such as governments and other funders wishing to keep down costs, or industry wishing to make treatments available to the widest groups possible. The scope of the review can vary from people with uncomplicated hypertension to those with a broad range of complications and comorbidities.