Whilst on the topic of treatment of hypertension, did anyone notice the small
print of the paper by Mike Pringle on Cardiovascular prevention in the BMJ a
couple of weeks ago. To summarise this was an audit of new CV
prevention procedures including more use of statins and 'better' i.e. more BP
monitoring. The result was great success in using more statins but as for BP
control - at the start of the audit 67% of patients had good BP control - 18
months later after numerous faffings about by docs and the ubiquitous practice
nurses the success rate was <Fx Drum roll.......> 66%.
Hmm. The good Prof. Pringle kinda played this down a bit :-)
Ian
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