The new hypertension guidelines: Now we are all to be officially ill

By Malcolm Kendrick MbChB, MRCGP (email - malcolm@llp.org.uk )

I write this before I have read all the details on the new Heart Lung and Blood Institute guidelines on raised blood pressure. But there has been enough information flying around to know what they are saying. Frankly, I knew what these guidelines were going to say before the committee met for the first time. Before, in fact, the members of the committee even knew they were going to be on the committee.

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