High blood pressure or hypertension is a huge topic. Today, we’re going to address what targets we should have for blood pressure treatment. The British guidelines, published by NICE in 2019, suggest that for patients under the age of 80, we should have a clinic blood pressure of less than 140 over 90 mmHg orContinue reading “High blood pressure targets”
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High blood pressure – just got higher?
So the big news this week is that the American Heart Association has just released new guidelines. What does that have to do with us? Well the UK and European guidelines all look at the same research studies and no doubt they will be updated soon. The new guidelines define high blood pressure as greaterContinue reading “High blood pressure – just got higher?”